What is nasa tv reporting about the Discovery shuttle?”
There are three new Expedition 23 crew members aboard the International Space Station. Following the completion of leak checks, the hatches between the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft and the station were opened at 3:19 a.m. EDT Sunday. A welcome ceremony for the new arrivals followed. NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko lifted off aboard the Soyuz TMA-18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan 12:04 a.m. Friday. › View Soyuz TMA-18 launch video › View Soyuz TMA-18 launch images The trio docked to the station at 1:25 a.m. Sunday, completing the Expedition 23 crew. The new crew members were welcomed by Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi who arrived at the station Dec. 22 aboard the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft. Space shuttle Discovery and the STS-131 crew launched at 6:21 a.m. Monday from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and will dock with the orbital laboratory April 7. Discovery i
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, United States, at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed, allowing pressurized hot gas from within the solid rocket motor to reach the outside and impinge upon the adjacent SRB attachment hardware and external fuel tank. This led to the separation of the right-hand SRB’s aft attachment and the structural failure of the external tank. Aerodynamic forces promptly broke up the orbiter. The crew compartment and many other vehicle fragments were eventually recovered from the ocean floor after a lengthy search and recovery operation. Although the exac
Nasa TV has reported that the space shuttle discovery began its space travel towards international Space Shuttle. There are seven members on the shuttle discovery including three women astronauts. The crew boarded the shuttle from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. The shuttle started its journey almost 45 minutes before the sunrise. The space shuttle discovery, moving with a mammoth velocity of 17,000 mph, was like a burning dot. It will be a historical moment when four women will be there in the International Space Station because one woman astronaut is waiting in the International station. But all the four women will come back to earth’s surface together.
