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Buckeye
July 30 2010
The next shuttle departing from KSC will be shuttle Constitution on mission STS-FA10. This flight is the reasigned payloads from the previously aborted flight STS-FA9. The main payload is the same, the Habitation Module. The SSRMS 2 that was to go up on FA9 has been moved to the first flight of the Shuttle-C that will take place in September of this year. In its place, the second Logistics Module will be sent up on this flight. Constitution has been selected as the orbiter that will be dispached to VAFB. Because of this, FA10 will land a EAFB instead of KSC to help facilitate relocation activities. Once readied, Constitution will be sent out to VAFB on top of a SCA. Launch of STS-FA10 will be Aug. 20 2010.
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Preperations to launch Skylab-B from VAFB are underway (don't ask where NASA got the Saturn V from). Launch of Skylab-B is scheduled for January 04 2011.
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The manifest for the remainder of 2010 is as follows:
STS-FA10......HAB Module 1, LM 2.........Aug. 20
SCS-FA1......S1 Truss, P1 Truss, SSRMS 2.....Sept. 01 (First Shuttle-C launch)
SCS-FA2......P Rad, S Rad, CMCM.........Sept. 23
STS-FA7-C.....S2 Truss Solar Array............Oct. 20
STS-202.....Spacelab......................Nov. 10 (First STS launch from SLC-6)
The next shuttle departing from KSC will be shuttle Constitution on mission STS-FA10. This flight is the reasigned payloads from the previously aborted flight STS-FA9. The main payload is the same, the Habitation Module. The SSRMS 2 that was to go up on FA9 has been moved to the first flight of the Shuttle-C that will take place in September of this year. In its place, the second Logistics Module will be sent up on this flight. Constitution has been selected as the orbiter that will be dispached to VAFB. Because of this, FA10 will land a EAFB instead of KSC to help facilitate relocation activities. Once readied, Constitution will be sent out to VAFB on top of a SCA. Launch of STS-FA10 will be Aug. 20 2010.
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Preperations to launch Skylab-B from VAFB are underway (don't ask where NASA got the Saturn V from). Launch of Skylab-B is scheduled for January 04 2011.
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The manifest for the remainder of 2010 is as follows:
STS-FA10......HAB Module 1, LM 2.........Aug. 20
SCS-FA1......S1 Truss, P1 Truss, SSRMS 2.....Sept. 01 (First Shuttle-C launch)
SCS-FA2......P Rad, S Rad, CMCM.........Sept. 23
STS-FA7-C.....S2 Truss Solar Array............Oct. 20
STS-202.....Spacelab......................Nov. 10 (First STS launch from SLC-6)
