The Fox News television network reports that due to severe weather in both Florida and California, the ferry's landing will be postponed another day - tomorrow (Sunday) the ferry will land in one of the landing windows
Friday afternoon update
The landing of the Atlantis ferry was postponed for a day due to the weather in Florida
NASA says that the humidity and atmospheric instability prevent the landing that was planned for tonight at 17:00 Israel time. The next opportunity: Saturday at 16:16 Israel time. We will come back and update tomorrow
Update Friday 00:00
Atlantis will return home today from the Hubble upgrade mission * The landing is scheduled for five o'clock in the evening Israel time
After five successful spacewalks to upgrade the Elb Space Telescope, STS-125 crew members are returning home after the mission.
The mission managers completed their review of the state of the heat protection system, especially the wingtips and the nose dome, and confirmed that the entire heat protection system is intact and safe for re-entry into the atmosphere.
The landing is scheduled for 10:01 a.m. EST (17:01 p.m. Israel time) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, weather permitting.
On Wednesday, team members spoke to reporters stationed at several NASA centers about the mission, the Hubble Space Telescope and their thoughts during the fifth and final upgrade mission.
In addition, they spoke with the three members of the International Space Station crew - Gennady Padalka, Mike Barrett and Kiuchi Wakata. The shuttle and the station circled the Earth at the same time but in different orbits. Later The astronauts in space lifted glasses from the station's new water recycling facility..
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lover:
You wouldn't be willing to pay more than you have.
After all, it has already been proven that those who are willing to pay enough also get there.
How much would I pay to spend one more day in space... and one more... and one more...
Avi,
I think Tchai was right. You need to correct the sentence in the article and replace the word "shuttle" at the end with "space station". That is:
"The shuttle and the station circled Earth at the same time but on different orbits. They later picked up cups from the space station's new water recycling facility."
Here is the original article:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/090520-space-urine.html
I think you got confused. The new water recycling facility is on the International Space Station, where the astronauts drank their fill of yesterday's coffee, as they called it.
Is the time 17:01 according to standard time (GMT+2) or summer time (GMT+3)?