The shuttle is expected to land on Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center, thus ending mission sts-124
The space shuttle Discovery left the International Space Station today at 14:42 in the afternoon, ending an almost nine-day mission on the station. Three hours earlier, the crew members of the STS-124 mission and the 17th crew of the International Space Station said goodbye to each other and locked the airlock between the two spacecraft.
The shuttle Discovery arrived at the station on June 2 and lifted the main body of Japan's Kibu Space Laboratory, a month after the previous STS-123 mission lifted the laboratory's logistics module, now these two components were joined together and air was pumped into them. From now on you can start performing scientific experiments on them. For the purpose of this mission as well as for the purpose of carrying out maintenance work outside the station, two of the crew members of the Discovery performed three spacewalks.
In addition, the STS-124 mission brought a new crew member to the space station - Greg Chaimtoff who switched places with Garrett Reisman who is now descending back to Earth after three months in space.
Discovery is expected to land on Saturday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Ami
I'm not such an expert, but it's not a plane that flies 10 km high in the atmosphere, but 400 km and outside the atmosphere. The shuttle cannot go straight down, otherwise it will gain speed and burn up in the air. It continues to circle the earth and gradually descends, even so it heats up quite a bit even in the thin atmosphere - until finally it descends to a height and speed that allow it to land. As far as I know the shuttle also does not brake with engines and its aerodynamics are less good than a normal plane, therefore the whole descent process has to be done gradually with several laps around the earth.
Why does one have to set off from a shuttle so close to Earth three days before? It seems to me that the distance only requires a few hours of flight, doesn't it?
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Ami Bachar
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Sabdarmish Yehuda
Today (Wednesday) at 20:25 the space station passed in the sky of Israel (more precisely, in the sky of Sinai) and was seen as a bright star moving quite fast in the sky from northwest to southeast. As I looked at the glowing point, I noticed that some distance behind it a pale point of light was moving on the same track. It turns out that I saw the space shuttle, after it separated from the station. Quite impressive, to see a space shuttle with the naked eye.
Why did I have the feeling that you would ask that, Mr. Ohion?
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To my website editor, what time is the shuttle Discovery expected to land