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NASA administrator Mike Griffin will hold an all-hands meeting with KSC employees on Wednesday at 10:30 am to discuss agency issues. Preparations are underway for STS-118, with the external tank ET-117 arriving at KSC and scheduled to be moved to the VAB next week. Privately operated test flights from the shuttle runway will gather data on sonic booms from suborbital flights.
NASA administrator Mike Griffin will hold an all-hands meeting with KSC employees on Wednesday at 10:30 am to discuss agency issues. Preparations are underway for STS-118, with the external tank ET-117 arriving at KSC and scheduled to be moved to the VAB next week. Privately operated test flights from the shuttle runway will gather data on sonic booms from suborbital flights.
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NASA administrator Mike Griffin will hold an all-hands meeting with KSC employees on Wednesday at 10:30 am to discuss agency issues. Preparations are underway for STS-118, with the external tank ET-117 arriving at KSC and scheduled to be moved to the VAB next week. Privately operated test flights from the shuttle runway will gather data on sonic booms from suborbital flights.
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moves to VAB this week all-hands meeting Wednesday Shuttle Update: On Atlantis, All Hands: NASA Administrator noise impact of such flights, both during preparations are under way for the re- Mike Griffin will hold an all-hands meet- launches and return flights to a landing at moval of the three main engines to in- ing with KSC employees at 10:30 a.m. on the spaceport. spect for flow liner contamination. This Wednesday at the Training Auditorium. Future test flights are planned to in- work can be accomplished within the Seating is limited and allocations have vestigate communications and telemetry time frame of the hail damage recovery been distributed to NASA and contractor systems, and to support the validation of effort, with no impact to the launch offices. The meeting will be broadcast operating procedures that may be used in schedule for STS-117. live on NASA TV, Channel 7, and will conducting future suborbital missions and All three orbiter main engines were also be available on the internal home related training flights. removed from Endeavour last week to page at: Cingular Wireless KSC Employee allow for flow liner contaminant inspec- http://portal.ksc.nasa.gov/portal/. Day, April 18 — Cingular Wireless rep- tions. The orbiter boom sensor system was removed for mechanical repairs on Pathfinder Test Flights at KSC — resentatives will be in the Headquarters Today a privately operated F-104 jet air- Lobby from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the boom pedestals. The boom is sched- Wednesday. All equipment and accesso- craft will take off from the KSC Shuttle uled to be reinstalled this week. The for- ries will be 25 percent off. To qualify for Landing Facility on the first in a series of ward external airlock hatch functional the Cingular Premier online discounts, pathfinder test missions from the space test was successfully completed, and please go to cingular.com. Discounts shuttle runway. Two flights will generate closeout of the payload bay compart- printed from the Premier web site will be test data to validate sonic boom assump- ments is under way. honored during the Cingular Wireless tions about the potential impacts of sub- Also, ET-117, the external fuel tank Employee Day. If you have any ques- orbital and orbital commercial spaceflight to be used for STS-118, arrived at KSC tions, please call Cingular at 321-452- from the facility. NASA is assessing the April 6 and will be moved next week to 0400. environmental impact of such flights. the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it Starfighters Inc. of Clearwater, Fla., NASA Science — What happens to will be placed in a checkout cell in high will perform the flights to help in assess- a hurricane when it gets hit by a dust bay No. 2 for processing. ing suborbital space launch trajectories storm? This is an important question be- Processing of Discovery, which re- from the runway and paving the way for cause Atlantic hurricanes are born not far turned from the STS-116 mission on Dec. future commercial space tourism and re- from the Sahara desert. Recently, NASA 22, continues in Orbiter Processing Facil- search flights from the facility. scientists gathered data that brings them ity bay 3. Mechanical and electrical A Starfighter F-104 will take off closer to the answer -- by flying directly mates and leak checks of fuel cell No. 2 from the runway on a northerly trajec- into a dusty hurricane. Read about it at: are done. Coolant servicing for fuel cell tory, following the flight path anticipated http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007 No. 2 is complete. Water spray boiler for suborbital vehicles which may hori- /13apr_dustyhurricanes.htm?list29875. system servicing and checkout continues. zontally launch from the facility. The air- Wire tray closeouts in the midbody are craft will bank east over the Atlantic, Countdown is published every Tuesday & Thurs- ongoing and cargo bay closeouts are un- der way. where it will climb to an altitude and dis- day for NASA KSC employees. Deadlines are tance representative of where vehicles 10 a.m. Mondays & Wednesdays. E-mail news to KSCISSNational Day Of Prayer — KSC will mark Update: accelerating on a suborbital parabolic tra- anita.barrett@jbosc.ksc.nasa.gov. For questions or this year’s National Day of Prayer with an hour- jectory will break the sound barrier. information, e-mail or call 321-867-2815. You can long observance at 11 a.m. in the KSC Training Ground stations will record any dis- also find Countdown on the Web at: Auditorium on May 3. For more information, cernible sonic boom noise at several loca- nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/countdown/co contact Ed Markowski at 867-0829. tions along the coast. This will assess the untdown-toc.html.