Updates STS-135 Updates

Here's my Shuttle Tribute video.Again,BE ADVISED:this is just a quick release ,there are some issues such as coreographing the pictures with the music.

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Atlantis on its way home taken by Exp 28 crew of the space station.

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NASASpaceflight: Atlantis into down processing after MER review notes flawless return:
Shuttle Atlantis has been given top marks for her return to Earth via the Mission Evaluation Room (MER) landing report – normally a highly technical, emotionless review into vehicle performance. However, as Atlantis begins down processing for her retirement, her team of engineers and controllers signed off on a report which included numerous notes of pride, best wishes and farewells.

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Spaceflight Now:
 
NASASpaceflight: STS-135: ET camera functions through ascent – no usable video of reentry:
Providing stunning images of the grand finale of the Shuttle Program, the External Tank (ET) camera on ET-138 concluded a 22-flight legacy - beaming back images of the tank’s performance through ascent. However, a camera modification was ultimately unsuccessful in transmitting much more than static footage of the tank as it tumbled into Earth’s atmosphere for its death plunge into the Pacific ocean.

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Oh well, It was worth a shot anyway.
 
NASA:

Some numbers:
  • 135th Space Shuttle mission
  • 33rd Flight of Atlantis (125,935,769 statute miles)
  • 307 Total days Atlantis has spent in space on 33 missions
  • 37th Shuttle / Station assembly mission
  • 11:29 a.m. EDT Launched Monday, July 8 (100th day launch out of 135 missions)
  • 5:57 a.m. EDT Landed Thursday, July 21 (20th night KSC landing; 26 night landings total)
  • 12 Days/18:27:56 Mission Elapsed Time (MET) – main gear touchdown (days/hours:minutes:seconds)
  • 5,284,862 Statute miles traveled (Total Mileage for Atlantis - 125,935,769; Total Mileage for Shuttle - 542,398,878)
  • 200 Orbits (4,848 total on 33 missions)
  • 11:07 a.m. EDT Docked to the International Space Station Sun July 10 (MET 1/23:38)
  • 2:28 a.m. EDTUndocking of a shuttle from the ISS for the last time (MET 10/14:59)
  • 08/15:21 Docked duration (assembly record is STS-123 at 11/20:36)
  • 12:47 p.m. EDT Hatches opened between Atlantis and the ISS Sun, July 10 (MET 2/01:18)
  • 10:28 a.m. EDT Hatches are closed Monday, July 18 (MET 9/22:59)
  • 7/21:41 Total hatch open time between Atlantis & ISS (“Joint Operations”)
  • 78th Landing at KSC (20th night – 59th day) & 133rd overall (54 EDW & 1 WSSH)
  • 202 Different “visitors” to the space station representing 15 countries
  • 852 Space Shuttle seats filled
  • 355 Individuals flown on the Space Shuttle
  • 30,576 Pounds of hardware to station – includes MPLM, LMC, RRM & Picosat
  • 28,100 Pounds of hardware from station – includes MPLM, LMC, & PM
  • 25,478 “Raffaello” Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (launch weight)
  • 21, 920 “Raffaello” Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (return weight)
  • 9,403 “Raffaello” Multi-Purpose Logistics Module cargo (launch weight)
  • 5,861 “Raffaello” Multi-Purpose Logistics Module cargo (return weight)
  • 2,977 Lightweight Mission Peculiar Equipment Support Structure Carrier (up mass)
  • 1,409 Lightweight Mission Peculiar Equipment Support Structure Carrier (down mass)
  • 550 Robotic Refueling Mission payload mass
  • 8 PicoSat mass (final deploy from a shuttle – the 180th)
  • 65 Pounds of Oxygen transferred to ISS (stack repress)
  • 111 Pounds of Nitrogen transferred to ISS (stack repress)
  • 1,652 Pounds of water transferred to ISS
  • 1,283 Pounds of middeck items delivered to ISS aboard Atlantis
  • 723 Pounds of middeck items returned from ISS aboard Atlantis
  • 901,745 Mass in space of the International Space Station (in pounds)
  • 100 Percentage complete of ISS assembly (pressurized volume)
  • 1 Spacewalks completed totaling 6 hrs,31 min (E28’s Mike Fossum/Ron Garan)
  • 1,009:09 Hours & minutes of EVA time devoted to ISS assembly (~ 42 days of EVA time)
  • 160 Number of EVAs devoted to ISS assembly
  • 249 Total number of EVAs performed by U.S. astronauts

Last Pictures of Atlantis in Space (Atlantis marked with cirle):

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Hi-res pics of the side-on views of the ISS during the STS-135 flyaround are now released here!
 
NASA: Peering Inside the Flame: Fusion Imaging of the Final Space Shuttle Launch


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A fused launch image of STS-135.​
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A side-by-side comparison showing a one-camera view of the launch (left) with the six-camera composited view (right).​
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The six images that went into a final composite image for STS-135. The first one is taken by a thermal infrared camera.​
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Video I made of STS-135, using John Williams musical piece from 'Close Encounters'
 
NASASpaceflight: NASA reviews TPS nose cap damage to STS-135/Atlantis:
With the Space Shuttle Program now officially a part of NASA’s past, the agency is continuing the process of getting Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour ready for their display at museums around the United States. However, following STS-135, NASA did conduct one official post-flight review – an investigation into RCC nose cap/chin strap damage to orbiter Atlantis on STS-135.


Post-STS-135 OV-104 Nose Cap damage:

As part of the standard landing-day procedures, a quick assessment of orbiter Atlantis’s Thermal Protection System (TPS) was made after her successful return to the Kennedy Space Center after the 12-day capstone mission for the Space Shuttle Program.

During this runway TPS inspection, an unexpected damage site was found on Atlantis’s nose cap RCC (Reinforced Carbon-Carbon) panel where it adjoins the RCC chin strap.

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10 years, I was there! Destiny, to become one of those who have witnessed shuttle launch "live" with their own eyes.
 
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