The early weather forecast for the Kennedy Space Center calls for acceptable conditions at the landing site. A backup landing opportunity is available an orbit later at 1:34 p.m. 16, 2012, the orbiter entered the then-new Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion, a temporary building named after the late entrepreneur and philanthropist whose family foundation made a 'transformational gift' to the science center. Landing at the Kennedy Space Center to conclude this spaceflight is scheduled for Wednesday at 11:57 a.m.
Standard day-before-landing tests of Discovery's flight controls and thrusters, along with packing up the cabin for entry will fill the crew's Tuesday in orbit. The Spacehab pressurized module, known as Flight Unit No. The astronauts will spend the rest of their workday using the Orbiter Boom Sensor System to inspect the shuttle's wing leading edge panels and nose cap to look for any space debris or micrometeoroid damage that could have occurred during the mission. 2 producing a 3 feet per second change in velocity. The shuttle is quickly departing the vicinity of the space station following separation burn No. Next, the tank will be offloaded and moved to Kennedys Vehicle Assembly Building where it eventually will be attached to space shuttle Endeavour for the. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item.
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