SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AEROSPACE REPORTS
A Biweekly Publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
VOLUME 43, ISSUE 19 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2006
16 SPACE TRANSPORTATION AND SAFETY - PART I
Includes passenger and cargo space transportation, e.g., shuttle operations; and space rescue techniques.
For related information see also 03 Air Transportation and Safety; 15 Launch Vehicles and Launch Operations; and 18 Spacecraft Design, Testing and Performance.
For space suits see 54 Man/System Technology and Life Support.
20050210113 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Day 8 Mission Status Briefing
August 02, 2005; In English; 57 Min., 23 sec. playng time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
Paul Hill, STS 114 Lead Shuttle Flight Director, David Wolf, Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Branch Chief, JSC from the Astronaut Office, and Kelly Beck, STS-114 Team 4 Flight Director are seen on the 8th day of the Space Shuttle Discovery Mission. Paul Hill presents and explains charts of the Gap Fillers that Steve Robinson will be pulling off during his EVA. The charts include: 1) Protruding Gap Fillers; 2) Starboard Worksite Access; 3) Protruding Chine Gap Filler; 4) Port Gap Filler Space Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS) Position; and 5) Port Gap Filler Close-up View. Kelly Beck talks about how the plan for the gap fillers were arranged, and presents the tools and techniques that Steve Robinson will be using during the EVA. David Wolf demonstrates how the EVA will be performed using forceps and a hacksaw to remove the gap fillers. The presentation ends with a question and answer period from the news media. CASI
Discovery (Orbiter); Space Transportation System; NASA Space Programs; Extravehicular Activity
20050210114 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
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STS-114: Discovery Day 9 Mission Status Briefing
August 03, 2005; In English; 46 min., 19 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
Paul Hill, STS-114 Lead Shuttle Flight Director, Mark Ferring, STS-114 Lead ISS Flight Director and Cindy Begley, STS-114 Lead EVA Officer is shown during this 9th day of the Space Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station. Paul Hill talks about the status of the transfers of critical items to the International Space Station and transfers back from the International Space Station into the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM). Hill also presents footage of the crew cabin blanket survey procedure. Mark Ferring talks in detail about the primary International Space Station task on the External Stowage Platform (ESP). The status of the external stowage platform installation, removal of grapple fixture, gap filler removal task, and Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 5 payload installation is discussed by Cindy Begley. She also presents footage of Steve Robinson’s spacewalk before the gap filler task and during the removal of the gap filler. The Capture of ESP-2 is also presented. The presentation ends with a question and answer period from the news media CASI
Space Transportation System; Discovery (Orbiter); International Space Station; NASA Space Programs; Space Shuttle Payloads
20050210115 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA STS-114: Discovery Mission Status Briefing July 27, 2005; In English; 1 hr., 3 min., 48 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V04, Videotape-VHS; B04, Videotape-Beta
Paul Hill, STS-114 Lead Shuttle Flight Director, talks about the imagery that was captured during the first twenty four hours in orbit. He expresses that new data was captured during ascent of the Space Shuttle Discovery through imagery and in-orbit handheld photographs of the Orbital Maneuvering system (OMS) pods were taken. Laser surveys were also taken of both the wing leading edges and nose caps using the Orbiter Boom and Sensor System (OBSS) instrument package. He presents raw footage from the Laser Dynamic Range Imager (LDRI) at the end of the OBSS showing RCC panels and tiles. He also answers questions from the news media about the possible damage to the Orbiter and debris during lift-off. CASI
Discovery (Orbiter); Imagery; Space Transportation System; NASA Space Programs
20050210116 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Post MMT Briefing
August 02, 2005; In English; 30 min. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V02, Videotape-VHS; B02, Videotape-Beta
Wayne Hale, Space Shuttle Deputy Program Manager, discusses the topics covered at the Mission Management Team (MMT) meeting. The topics include: 1) Wing leading edge reinforced carbon-carbon clearance; 2) Protruding blanket on the side of the Space Shuttle Discovery Orbiter; 3) Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) replacement; 4) Transfer items; and 5) EVA procedures. Questions from the news media about the possibility of a CMG failure, Space Shuttle re-entry, gap fillers, and dangers during the EVA to repair the Space Shuttle Discovery are answered. CASI
Discovery (Orbiter); Space Transportation System; NASA Space Programs; Mission Planning
20050210117 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
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STS-114: Discovery Post MMT Briefing
August 07, 2005; In English; 1 hr., 35 min., 16 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V04, Videotape-VHS; B04, Videotape-Beta
On flight day 13, Leroy Cain, STS-114 Ascent/Entry Flight Director, discusses the condition of the Space Shuttle Discovery, and the weather outlook for landing. He answers questions from the news media about his feelings about re-entry since the Columbia tragedy, possible new information during re-entry, critical moments in the Mission Control Room during landing, and differences between night landing and day landing. Footage of the Mission Control Room and a talk with Soichi Noguchi in orbit is shown. Also, footage of the truss structure of the International Space Station, Destiny Laboratory, crew cabin of Discovery, and the Orbiter Docking System linked up to forward docking port on Discovery is shown. Eileen Collins and Wendy Lawrence are shown in the flight deck of Discovery. Charles Camarda is also shown in the mid-deck. Downlink television from Discovery shows spacewalk choreographer Andy Thomas with Stephen Robinson and Soichi Noguchi preparing for depressurization and pre-breathing activities that will lead to the opening of the hatch. The installation of a replacement GPS antenna, images of the port wing of Discovery and Canadarm moving with the Orbital Boom Sensor System (OBSS) extension is shown. CASI
Discovery (Orbiter); Space Transportation System; NASA Space Programs; Uncontrolled Reentry (Spacecraft)
20050210118 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Day 9 Mission Status Briefing
August 03, 2005; In English; 46 min., 17 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
Paul Hill, STS-114 Lead Shuttle Flight Director; Mark Ferring, Lead ISS Flight Director; Cindy Begley, STS-114 Lead EVAOfficer were present. Paul reported on the general accomplishments of the mission for the day: the transfer to two stations are complete, transfers back from station into logistics module into the mid-deck are about 75 % complete and definitely in schedule to finish the next day, everything with the external video cam and the RGMC return are complete. He noted that all crews are doing great by all means. Paul also gave a detailed explanation with supporting video clips regarding concern for Eileen’s side of window. Mark and Cindy both gave technical details on Mission Specialists Steven Robinson and Souichi Noguchi’s extravehicular activities (EVA). News media focused most of their questions on extravehicular activities. CASI
Space Transportation System Flights; Space Transportation System; Extravehicular Activity
20050210222 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Landing Handout
August 09, 2005; In English; 1 hr., 13 min., 28 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V04, Videotape-VHS; B04, Videotape-Beta
Mission Control Room in Houston keeps in close communication with STS-114 Commander Eileen Collins as she and her crew follows the standard steps and procedures in maneuvering the Space Shuttle on its way back to Earth. The Space Shuttle Discovery landed at approximately 7:12AM Central daylight time at Edwards Air Force Base in California. CASI
Space Transportation System; Space Shuttles; Discovery (Orbiter); Landing; Spacecraft Landing
20050210224 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Crew Arrival
July 09, 2005; In English; 23 min., 56 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V02, Videotape-VHS; B02, Videotape-Beta
George Diller of NASA Public Affairs narrates the STS-114 Crew arrival at Kennedy Space Center aboard a Gulf Stream aircraft. They were greeted by Center Director Jim Kennedy. Commander Eileen Collins introduced each of her crew members and gave a brief description of their roles in the mission. Mission Specialist 3, Andrew Thomas will be the lead crew member on the inspection on flight day 2; he is the intravehicular (IV) crew member that will help and guide Mission Specialists Souichi Noguchi and Stephen Robinson during their spacewalks. Pilot James Kelly will be operating the shuttle systems in flying the Shuttle; he will be flying the space station robotic arm during the second extravehicular activity and he will be assisting Mission Specialist Wendy Lawrence during the other two extravehicular activities; he will be assisting on the rendezvous on flight day three, and landing of the shuttle. Commander Collins also mentioned Pilot Kelly’s recent promotion to Colonel by the USA Air Force. Mission Specialist 1, Souichi Noguchi from JAXA (The Japanese Space Agency) will be flying on the flight deck for ascent; he will be doing three spacewalks on day 5, 7, and 9; He will be the photo/TV lead for the different types of cameras on board to document the flight and to send back the information to the ground for both technical and public affairs reasons. Mission Specialist 5, Charles Camada will be doing the inspection on flight day 2 with Mission Specialist Thomas and Pilot Kelly; he will be transferring the logistics off the shuttle and onto the space station and from the space station back to the shuttle; He will help set up eleven lap tops on board. Mission Specialist 4, Wendy Lawrence will lead the transfer of logistics to the space station; she is the space station arm operator during extravehicular activities 1 and 3; she will be carrying the 6,000 pounds of external storage platform from the shuttle payload bay over to the space station; she is also in charge of the shuttle storage. Mission Specialist 2, Stephen Robinson is the flight engineer of the shuttle; he will be doing spacewalks with Mission Specialist Noguchi; he will set up the 11 lap top computers on board. Each crew member gave a brief message to the press. Commander Eileen later gave her final message and the crew walked back to the Astronaut Corps. CASI
Space Transportation System; Spacecrews; Prelaunch Summaries; Flight Crews
20050210232 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
Orbiter Processing Overview
January 25, 2005; In English; 36 min. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
Footage of orbiter processing is shown. The Space Shuttle Discovery Landing Operations, Rollback to Orbiter Processing Facility After Landing, Orbiter Processing Facility, Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), Orbiter Rollover from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the VAB, Atlantis Orbiter Lift and Mate, Atlantis Rollout to Launch Pad 39, Payload Canister Door Opened and Payload Move into Payload Ground Handling Mechanism, Payload into Orbiter, Orbiter Payload Bay Door Closure, Launch Pad Processing at Launch Complex 39, Rotating Service Structure Rollback at Launch Pad, Discovery Lift-off and SRB separation is presented. CASI
Atlantis (Orbiter); Discovery (Orbiter); NASA Space Programs; Space Transportation System
20050211982 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Day 13 Mission Status Briefing
August 07, 2005; In English; 30 min., 41 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
LeRoy Cain, STS-114 Ascent/Entry Flight Director, takes a solo stand with the Press in this briefing. He reports that the vehicle is in good shape, consumable status is excellent, and the shuttle crew is in high spirits and preparing for de-orbit and landing. LeRoy and his team have completed the entry system check up, flight control check up, reactor control system check up, and noted that all are at nominal performance; weather forecast is very good, the Entry team is ready and looking forward to de-orbit and landing at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday, August 8th. Re-entry, personal feelings, Columbia accident, data gathering, consumable situation, back up sites, weather, communication block out, night and day landing, and Commander Collin’s piloting skills during night flight are some of the topics covered with the News media. CASI
Space Transportation System; Space Shuttle Orbiters; Reentry; Flight Control
20050211984 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Post Landing Press Briefing from JSC
August 09, 2005; In English; 34 min., 21 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
LeRoy Cain, STS-114 Ascent/Entry Flight Director, takes a solo stand with the Press in this briefing. He noted that the successful flight and return of Discovery is another important milestone, a fresh start, and a new beginning as part of NASA’s commitment to the President’s vision of man’s return to the Moon, Mars and beyond. From this successful test flight, NASA will have a lot of learning and hard work to do in preparation for the next flight. Weather factors, safe landing, touch down, communications, re-entry, the Columbia, were some topics covered with the News media. CASI
Space Transportation System; Postflight Analysis
20050212019 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Mission Status Briefing July 26, 2005; In English; 42 min., 50 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
This STS-114 Discovery Mission Status Briefing begins with Eileen Collins, Commander of the STS-114 Discovery, and crewmembers in orbit talking with mission control after launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. Collins gives tribute to the crewmembers of the Space Shuttle Columbia and their families. Phil Engelauf, STS-114 Mission Operations Representative presents his mission status briefing and John Shannon, Space Shuttle Flight Operations and Integration Manager talks about the processing of radar data taken of the Space Shuttle Discovery during ascent. A video presentation from the Solid Rocket Booster Camera is shown by John Shannon. The video includes: 1) Piece of orbiter tile and origins of debris; 2) Pictures of debris after SRB separation; 3) TYVEK covers; and 4) Bird impacts external tank nose cone. Questions from the news media about tile shearing, vehicle damage and debris from the external tank are answered. CASI
Discovery (Orbiter); Space Transportation System Flights; Spacecrews; NASA Space Programs
20050212033 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Post MMT Press Conference
July 15, 2005; In English; 44 min., 35 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V03, Videotape-VHS; B03, Videotape-Beta
Bruce Buckingham of NASA Public Affairs hosted this press conference. Wayne Hill, Space Shuttle Deputy Program Manager; John Muratore, Shuttle Systems and Integration Manager; Mike Wetmore, Director for Shuttle Processing were present. Wayne started with a video from Shuttle Logistics Depot showing details of a point sensor box commonly named the black box. Work with the trouble shooting continues on a day to day basis, no definite launching date is set. John reports that they are in a mission support mode all over the country until the sensor problem is solved. Mike reports his team will complete scrub and securing tasks through the next day, restore the facility to its normal mode, and will start to a four day process of getting back to launch once trouble shooting is completed. Tanking test, thermal environment, problem identification, engine cut-off sensor problems, sensors, risk, design reviews, test and analysis, correlation of the problem with Columbia, are some of the topics covered with the News media. CASI
Space Transportation System; Launching; Space Shuttles
20050212102 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
CSA/ASC Press Briefing
July 12, 2005; In English; 20 min. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V02, Videotape-VHS; B02, Videotape-Beta
Nicole Gignac, Senior Communications Advisor Canadian Space Agency (CSA), introduces the panel for this CSA/ASC press briefing. The panel consist of: Dr. Steve Maclean, CSA astronaut; Dr. Paul Cooper, Deputy General Manager, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA); and Dr. Iain Christie, Director of Research and Development from NEPTEC. Maclean will fly on the STS-115 Mission in February of 2006. He presents pictures and talks about the crewmembers of the Space Shuttle Columbia and Space Shuttle Discovery. Maclean also discusses entry risks as it pertains to the leading edge wing of Discovery. Paul Cooper explains and shows a video presentation of Canadarm robotics. The briefing ends with Dr Christie explaining the sensitive three dimensional inspections are performed in space that looks for cracks in the leading edge wing of the Space Shuttle Discovery. CASI
Canadian Space Program; Discovery (Orbiter); Space Station Mobile Servicing System; NASA Space Programs
20050212105 NASA Kennedy Space Center, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
STS-114: Discovery Mission Status Briefing
July 27, 2005; In English; 1 hr., 4 min., 9 sec. playing time, in color, with sound; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; V04, Videotape-VHS; B04, Videotape-Beta
Paul Hill, STS-114 Lead Shuttle Flight Director andWayne Hale, Space Shuttle Deputy Program Director is shown during this mission status briefing. Hill talks about the first 24 hours of the Space Shuttle Discovery in orbit. He expresses that he has acquired data from the launch through imagery and hand held photographs of the external tank. Hale answers questions from the news media about how the engineers may be managing this data and if there is an overwhelming amount of data. Live downlink television pictures from the end-effectors camera on the Robotic Arm as it has completed its reberthing of the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) are shown. CASI
Discovery (Orbiter); Space Transportation System Flights; NASA Space Programs; Imagery
20050212117 Georgia Inst. of Tech., Atlanta, GA, USA
Decomposition-Based Decision Making for Aerospace Vehicle Design
Borer, Nicholas K.; Mavris, DImitri N.; June 2005; 71 pp.; In English Contract(s)/Grant(s): NGT1-02005; No Copyright; Avail: CASI; A04, Hardcopy
Most practical engineering systems design problems have multiple and conflicting objectives. Furthermore, the satisfactory attainment level for each objective ( requirement ) is likely uncertain early in the design process. Systems with long design cycle times will exhibit more of this uncertainty throughout the design process. This is further complicated if the system is expected to perform for a relatively long period of time, as now it will need to grow as new requirements are identified and new technologies are introduced. These points identify a need for a systems design technique that enables decision making amongst multiple objectives in the presence of uncertainty. Traditional design techniques deal with a single objective or a small number of objectives that are often aggregates of the overarching goals sought through the generation of a new system. Other requirements, although uncertain, are viewed as static constraints to this single or multiple objective optimization problem. With either of these formulations, enabling tradeoffs between the requirements, objectives, or combinations thereof is a slow, serial process that becomes increasingly complex as more criteria are added. This research proposal outlines a technique that attempts to address these and other idiosyncrasies associated with modern aerospace systems design. The proposed formulation first recasts systems design into a multiple criteria decision making problem. The now multiple objectives are decomposed to discover the critical characteristics of the objective space. Tradeoffs between the objectives are considered amongst these critical characteristics by comparison to a probabilistic ideal tradeoff solution. The proposed formulation represents a radical departure from traditional methods. A pitfall of this technique is in the validation of the solution: in a multi-objective sense, how can a decision maker justify a choice between non-dominated alternatives? A series of examples help the reader to observe how this technique can be applied to aerospace systems design and compare the results of this so-called Decomposition-Based Decision Making to more traditional design approaches. Author
Decision Making; Design Analysis; Systems Engineering; Aerospace Systems; Aerospace Vehicles; Decomposition
Source: NASA.
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