Space Shuttle Discovery Landing (STS-119)

eleven minutes to touchdown communications now through the Merritt Island tracking station in Florida discovery take tack and take GPS under five minutes from touchdown views of discovery now as it approaches the Kennedy Space Center from the southwest altitude 55,000 feet range to the landing site sixty-eight miles or 32 miles altitude again down to almost 50,000 feet the sink rate is about 260 feet per second under Lee Archambault airy heading alignment cone or cylinder as he begins a 260 degree turn twin sonic booms announcing Discovery's arrival into landing site tony antonelli the pilot of the vehicle now taking his turn for a few seconds flying discovery around the heading alignment circle discovery on at the 180 and pilot Tony Antonelli now handing the stick back to Commander Li Archon Bo who now has control of discovery for the remainder of the flight discovery on at the 90 19,000 feet in altitude range 11 miles from the runway Discovery's this velocity is down to 400 miles per hour discovery is on and on discovery copy one way insight about one minute - touchdown altitude 5,800 feet commander Lee our Chimbote beginning to flare the nose of discovery up for final approach and landing my gear is down main gear touchdown and that was gear touchdown space shuttle discovery's rolling out on runway one-five at the Kennedy Space Center completing 201 orbits 202 orbits of the earth while traveling five million three hundred four thousand miles this landing marks the 70th shuttle mission to end at KSC discovery spent eight days docked to the International Space Station leaving behind the first Japanese long-duration crew member and also leaving it more power capability setting the stage for an increase to six-person crew in late May sandy Magnus mission specialists now aboard discovery home after 134 days in space 129 of those aboard the International Space Station Discovery's completing the 36th voyage of its life and 125 120 v space shuttle mission in the history of the program yes this going will stop Houston copies will stop welcome home discovery after a great mission to bring the International Space Station to full power special welcome home to sandy after living and working on board ISS as a member of expedition 18 and to the entire crew of sts-1 discovery we have no post-landing deltas we'll meet you on page 5-3 of the entry checklist discovery Houston will take red reconfig on page 5-8 discovery we're ready for APU hide shutdown and discovery we are go for extended power up to power we this is Mission Control Houston post landing activities still ongoing even while we were enjoying the various replays of Discovery this is Mission Control Houston while post landing activities continue on the runway at the Kennedy Space Center following Discovery's 13 day 5.3 million mile journey the confirmation is has been received that all seven crew members now are off the vehicle Lee Archambault Aune Antonelli Steve Swanson Joe acaba Ricky Arnold John Phillips and returning expedition crew member from the space station sandy Magnus after 134 days in space are all off the vehicle in the crew transport vehicle they'll be going through some routine medical check-ups the vehicle will back away from the orbiter and then some of the crew members will when the opportunity arises we'll take a walk around the vehicle a traditional walk around the orbiter on the runway Discovery's mission ended at 3:13 this afternoon Eastern Time with a landing on runway one-five completing Discovery's mission here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center space shuttle Discovery is on Shuttle Landing Facility runway one-five after 12 days 19 hours 30 minutes and 15 seconds in space the astronauts performed three spacewalks well at the station and delivered a fourth and final set of solar array wings and he has six truss the mission also took up the replacement unit for a system that converts urine to drinking water and delivered the first Japan aerospace exploration agency's resident station crew member the return flight brought home astronaut Sandy Magnus after 190 129 days in orbit the seven astronauts have now moved from shuttle discovery into the crew transport vehicle or what's called a people mover while a convoy of more than thirty specially designed vehicles and a team of about a hundred and thirty-five trained personnel contact conduct the recovery operations with me today to discuss these operations is Mike CUDA the manager of integrated landing operations for the United Space Alliance Mike thanks for joining us well thanks for having me it's a pleasure being here could you give me a little bit about what's going on down there at the Shuttle Landing Facility and what these operations are okay you know currently we're working the the oh my the operation maintenance instruction procedure which is a su 28 that performs all the post landing convoy operations on the on the runway in the forward portion of the orbiter you can see to the left of the screen we have the flight crew D stow vehicle that will made up to the white room vehicle which is currently being blocked right now by the crew transport vehicle as you mentioned earlier crew egress is now complete once the ctv backs away the flight crew equipment vehicle and payload feasto folks will go into the crew module and start removing some of the time critical payload ystos and we're standing by as the astronauts are now departing the crew transport vehicle being greeted by associate administrator Chris kelis and I'm sorry the NASA Acting Administrator Chris Kelly's associate administrator for space operations bill Gerstenmaier deputy program manager for the shuttle program Leroy Cain deputy center director for Kennedy Space Center Janet Petro shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach director of shuttle processing Rita wilcoxon Stephanie Stilson the vehicle flow director for space shuttle Discovery hi I'm Lee our Schmo from the sts-119 crew and we're very happy to be back here in Florida we want to certainly think that all the people at the Kennedy Space Center for number one getting discovery ready for launch fighting through some technical issues before we launch them but they got us ready and they got us launch safely we had a very successful mission very proud that we were able to bring up the s6 trust the final power segment for the International Space Station and we're very very happy we were able to bring discovery right back here to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida so to everyone at the Kennedy Space Center thank you very much for the great job leading up to the launch and thank you very much for coming out here today take care the crew of space shuttle discovery's sts-119 mission and check-out building and post-landing convoy operations continue on the runway approximately two hours since landing occurred and we have probably another hour and a half to two hours to go prior to picking up with tow operations to the OPF and as you can see the astronauts are now departing the shuttle landing facility this concludes NASA's televisions continuous coverage of the sts-119 mission we expect to have a crew news conference with Discovery's astronauts about five or so hours past landing time please join us at no earlier than 5:30 p.m. Eastern for the post landing news conference again welcome home discovery

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Length: 18min 29sec (1109 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 04 2013