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1. STS-130 MCC Status Report #27
2. STS-130 MCC Status Report #28
3. STS-130 MCC Status Report #29

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:21:37 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #27

STS-130 Report #27 1:30 a m CST Sunday, Feb 21, 2010 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The crew of space shuttle Endeavour completed checkouts of its re-entry and landing systems Saturday and prepared for a scheduled Sunday evening landing

With weather forecasts dynamic for both the Florida and California landing sites, flight controllers decided to forego a planned orbital adjustment burn to broaden landing opportunity options over the next few days

Landing support teams will be ready at both Kennedy Space Center, Fla , and Edwards Air Force Base, Calif The first opportunity involves a deorbit burn at 8:14 p m CST and a landing at 9:20 p m The second calls for a deorbit burn at 9:50 p m and landing at 10:55 p m

The first California opportunity would begin with a deorbit burn at 11:20 p m and result in landing at 12:25 a m CST Monday The final opportunity begins with a deorbit burn at 12:56 a m and ends with a 2 a m Monday landing in California

Forecasters predict a chance of showers within 30 miles of Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility and a possible low cloud ceiling The forecast for Edwards also includes possible showers and low clouds

Saturday evening, the six Endeavour astronauts talked about their mission during interviews with CNN, CNN Español, and Univision Two of the interviews were conducted in Spanish, focusing on Commander George Zamka who is of Columbian ancestry

Endeavour's astronauts also completed the standard day-before-entry checkout of the shuttle's flight control systems and reaction control jets Imagery specialists will finish their analysis of late inspection scans of the shuttle’s nose cap and wing leading edges early Sunday

The crew is scheduled to wake at 1:14 p m CST to begin final landing preparations The next status will be issued after the crew awakens, or earlier if events warrant The JSC Newsroom will close at 2 a m , and reopen at 3 p m

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:26:14 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #28

STS-130 Report #28 Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 6 p m CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – The astronauts onboard space shuttle Endeavour are getting ready to conclude their two-week flight to the International Space Station with a planned landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida tonight at 9:20 CST

The crew’s wakeup call at 1:14 p m was “The Marines’ Hymn,” played for Commander George Zamka, who is a colonel in the Marine Corps

Landing support has been called up today at KSC and at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif , where there are two opportunities each for a shuttle landing today The first KSC landing opportunity calls for a deorbit burn at 8:14 p m CST and a landing at 9:20 p m The second calls for a deorbit burn at 9:50 p m and landing at 10:55 p m

The first West Coast opportunity requires a deorbit burn at 11:20 p m and a 12:25 a m CST Monday landing The final landing opportunity has a deorbit burn at 12:56 a m and landing at 2 a m Monday

The Spaceflight Meteorology Group is forecasting low cloud ceilings and a chance of showers within 30 nautical miles of the runway at both the primary and backup landing sites for today’s four landing opportunities, and Entry Flight Director Norm Knight has indicated that a decision on whether a landing attempt can be made is likely to be pushed to a point late in the process

Meanwhile, normal communication has been restored to the International Space Station after a series of outages linked to a computer issue Flight controllers in Houston are still investigating the issue, but suspect this morning’s unplanned transitions among the three command and control computers in the U S segment of the station were related to a system in the Columbus module that packages data for telemetry to the Columbus Control Center outside Munich, Germany All three of the computers are functioning, and the issue never impacted operation of the station’s life support systems

The next status report will be issued after landing, or earlier if events warrant

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:30:04 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-130 MCC Status Report #29

STS-130 Report #29 Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 9:30 p m CST Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON – Space shuttle Endeavour is home after two weeks in space, having delivered the final U S module and a “room with a view” to the International Space Station STS-130 Commander George Zamka guided Endeavour to a landing at the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility at 9:20 p m CST, to wrap up a 5 7 million mile mission

“Houston it’s great to be home It was a great adventure,” Zamka radioed to Mission Control after wheels stop

It was the 24th flight for Endeavour, the 32nd shuttle mission devoted to ISS assembly and maintenance, and the 130th shuttle mission to date It was also the 23rd night landing in shuttle history and the 17th at the Florida spaceport Endeavour now will be towed into its processing hangar to be prepared for its next mission, currently scheduled for July

Zamka, pilot Terry Virts and mission specialists Kathryn Hire, Stephen Robinson, Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken left behind more than 36,000 pounds of hardware that included the Tranquility Node 3 and the unique cupola providing a 360-degree view through seven windows

Behnken and Patrick conducted three spacewalks during the mission totaling 18 hours, 14 minutes That brings the totals for station assembly to 140 spacewalks and more than 873 hours

The crew now plans to spend the night in crew quarters at Kennedy before returning to Houston for a welcome ceremony at about 4 p m Monday at Ellington Field’s Hangar 990, near the Johnson Space Center

Next up is the flight of Discovery on the STS-131 mission, targeted for launch April 5 with a crew of seven to deliver several tons of supplies to the space station and conduct other assembly and maintenance work

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