Monday, November 17, 2008

1050p 11/16 Update: Magnus joins station crew; HD video test

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 23
Posted: 10:40 PM, 11/16/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-21 (11/16/08): Endeavour docks with space station
   SR-22 (11/16/08): Hatches opened; shuttle crew enters space station; mission status briefing
   SR-23 (11/16/08): Magnus officially joins ISS-18 crew

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10:40 PM, 11/16/08, Update: Magnus officially joins ISS-18 crew; HD video test

Astronaut Sandra Magnus officially joined the Expedition 18 crew aboard the international space station today, replacing flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff, who was launched to the outpost May 31.

The official exchange occurred at 9:50 p.m. when Magnus' custom-fitted Soyuz seatliner was transferred from the shuttle Endeavour to the space station. From this point forward, Chamitoff will be considered a member of Endeavour's crew while Magnus will take his place aboard the station, joining ISS-18 commander Mike Fincke and flight engineer Yury Lonchakov.

A few minutes after the exchange, the Endeavour astronauts downlinked a short videotape of the shuttle's appraoch to the space station earlier today in a test of high definition video from space. The HD video showed the station as the shuttle performed a flip maneuver 600 feet directly below the outpost. The clip was accompanied by a downlinked recording of "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss, an obvious tribute to Stanley Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" and its famous space station approach footage.

"Good morning, Dave. This is HAL," astronaut James Dutton joked from mission control in Houston. "That looked pretty good."

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Quick-Launch Web Links:

CBS News STS-126 Status Reports:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html

CBS News STS-126 Quick-Look Page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html

NASA ISS Expeditions Page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html

NASA Shuttle Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
NASA Station Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
Spaceflight Now: http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html
GoogleSatTrack: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking/

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815p 11/16 Update: Astronauts enter station; mission status briefing

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 22
Posted: 8:15 PM, 11/16/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-19 (11/16/08): Terminal phase of space station rendezvous begins
   SR-20 (11/16/08): Shuttle docks with space station
   SR-21 (11/16/08): Endeavour docks with space station
   SR-22 (11/16/08): Hatches opened; shuttle crew enters space station; mission status briefing

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5:20 PM, 11/16/08, Update: Shuttle Endeavour docks with space station (UPDATED at 8:15 p.m. with hatch opening; welcome aboard; mission status briefing)

The space shuttle Endeavour, piloted by commander Chris Ferguson from the aft flight deck, glided to a picture-perfect docking with the international space station today as the two spacecraft sailed 212 miles above northeastern India at five miles per second.

"On the big loop, capture confirmed," an astronaut called at 5:01 p.m. as the docking mechanisms engaged to begin the process of locking the two vehicles together.

About two hours and 15 minutes later, after waiting for residual motion to damp out, correcting a minor misalignment, completing leak checks and setting up communications links, hatches were opened at 7:16 p.m. and Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke, Yury Lonchakov and Gregory Chamitoff welcomed the seven shuttle fliers aboard.

Ferguson, pilot Eric Boe, station-veteran Don Pettit, incoming space station flight engineer Sandra Magnus and spacewalkers Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Stephen Bowen and Robert "Shane" Kimbrough floated into the Harmony module a few moments later to hugs, smiles and handshakes.

"Endeavour arriving," Chamitoff said, ringing the ship's bell.

"Sandy, welcome to your new home," Fincke said as Magnus floated into the Harmony module.

"I'm happy to be here!" she replied. Fincke then formally welcomed the shuttle crew aboard.

"Welcome Endeavour. You guys look awesome, It was a beautiful approach, beautiful docking, we're really glad you're here," he said. "We understand that this house is in need of an extreme makeover and that you're the crew to do it. We think we've got everything ready for you. We're really glad to see you. Welcome. Welcome everybody. Welcome to space.

"Hey, we figured we'd go for a 10-year anniversary party for the space station, so that's what we showed up for," Ferguson joked, referring to the Nov. 20, 1998, start of station construction. "We're looking forward to working on your house and making it look a little bit better when we're done. You guys are awesome. It's great to see you."

The primary goals of Endeavour's mission are to deliver urine recycling equipment, a new galley, a second toilet and two sleep stations, part of a long-range plan to boost crew size from three to six next year. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Bowen and Kimbrough also plan to clean and lubricate a degraded solar array rotary joint on the right side of the lab's main power truss, prepare the Japanese Kibo module for additional outfitting next year and stow a spare coolant system component on the station's exterior.

"OK, let's transfer!" Magnus exclaimed when FIncke finished his welcome.

"On to work!" Fincke agreed. "Man, this place just got smaller."

The first item on the agenda today, after a safety briefing from Fincke, was to transfer a custom Soyuz seat liner fitted for Magnus from the shuttle to the station. Magnus is replacing Chamitoff, launched to the station last June, as a member of the Expedition 18 crew and the seat liner allows her to use the station's Russian Soyuz lifeboat in an emergency,.

The astronauts also planned to activate the station-to-shuttle power transfer system, or SSPTS, which routes electrical power from the station's solar arrays to the shuttle. FInally, the astronauts planned to use the station's robot arm to pull the shuttle's heat shield inspection boom from its perch on the right side of the ship's cargo bay. The boom then will be handed off to the shuttle's robot arm for the remainder of the docked mission.

Later this evening, around 10:20 p.m., the astronauts are scheduled to downlink high definition video of today's docking as part of an HD video test.

"Everyone on board Endeavour and the international space station is doing great," said lead flight director Mike Sarafin. "Everyone's in great spirits. We did get all of the rendezvous pitch maneuver imagery of Endeavour and all of that imagery has been downlinked. The debris assessment team is in the process of looking at that and we will let them work through their standard process and allow the team to review any data and we'll make a decision if a focused inspection is required after that point."

Said LeRoy Cain, chairman of NASA's Mission Management Team: ""Now that we are safely docked with the international space station, the crew is ready, with teams on the ground, to embark on what is going to be a really exciting and complex mission."

Docking capped a textbook rendezvous that began with launch Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center. Ferguson and Boe began the terminal phase of the procedure at 2:27 p.m., trailing the station by about 9 statute miles. By 4 p.m., Endeavour was positioned directly below the lab complex for a now-routine post-Columbia pitch-around maneuver intended to expose the shuttle's heat-shield tiles to digital cameras aboard the station.

While Ferguson carried out a 360-degree flip, Fincke and Chamitoff photographed the shuttle's belly with 400-mm and 800-mm telephoto lenses to help engineers assess the overall health of Endeavour's heat shield. While it will take several more days to complete that assessment, Fincke said the heat shield looked good through the camera.

"These kind of lenses are in essence big telescopes and Greg and I, with our professionally trained eyes, could not see anything obvious on the shuttle," Fincke radioed. "It looked like it was clean and dry, as we say. It looked really good."

"That's great to hear," Mark Vande Hei replied from the space station control center.

With the rendezvous pitch maneuver complete, Ferguson flew Endeavour up to a point directly ahead of the space station with its cargo bay facing the lab and its nose aimed at deep space. From there, he carefully guided the shuttle in to a docking at a pressurized mating adapter on the front of the Harmony module.

"Endeavour, Houston, on the big loop," astronaut Steve Robinson called from the shuttle control center a few minutes later. "The team down here on planet Earth wanted to compliment you on a well-done, very nicely done rendezvous and docking. It's great to see Endeavour docked with the international space station. And we can also pass that on for all the family ops going on in the viewing room behind us."

"On behalf of Heide and I, it's great to be back," Ferguson replied. He and Stefanyshyn-Piper visited the station together on their first flight in 2006. "I don't think there's anybody more happy to be back than Don, though, and I know Shane and Eric and Steve are happy to be visiting for the first time. And I know Sandy's happy to be at her new home."

"Roger that, and there just might be some smiles on the other side of that hatch going on, too," Robinson said.

"I bet there are."

Fincke then chimed in, saying "I don't know who's smiling more, Greg, myself or Yury. Can't wait to open the hatch, guys, and welcome you aboard. And very smooth, very beautiful docking. And you looked clean and dry on the RPM."

Going into the terminal rendezvous sequence, engineers were unsure whether Endeavour's KU-band antenna would function properly in radar mode to provide long-range navigational data to the ship's flight computers. The crew was trained to use the shuttle's star trackers as a backup, but the KU antenna operated normally in radar mode and there were no problems of any significance.

Cain said this evening that Endeavour is in good shape. One of two heater "strings" in the shuttle's aft orbital maneuvering system has failed, but the redundant string is operating normally and even if a second failure occurs, a thermal analysis shows no problems will result.

As for ascent debris, Cain said only one event remains under discussion. At roughly 28 seconds into flight, an object of some sort could be seen passing below the shuttle's aft left rocket pod. Engineers initially suspected a small strip of insulation had pulled off, but a video inspection by the crew showed the insulation is intact. The debris may have been ice, Cain said. Whatever it was, video analysis shows it never struck the orbiter.

Engineers are rushing to complete an assessment of the thermal protection system on the far end of Endeaovur's right wing. Once a cargo module mounted in the shuttle's payload bay is attached to the space station Monday, the ship's robot arm will not be able to reach the outboard regions of the right wing if any close-up inspections are required.

Sarafin said if any additional inspections are, in fact, required - and there are no signs of any problems as of this writing - attachment of the cargo module would be delayed to Tuesday.

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Quick-Launch Web Links:

CBS News STS-126 Status Reports:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html

CBS News STS-126 Quick-Look Page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html

NASA ISS Expeditions Page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html

NASA Shuttle Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
NASA Station Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
Spaceflight Now: http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html
GoogleSatTrack: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking/

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Newsletter + Melamorsico n.130

Buon inizio settimana a tutti,

siete pronti per aggiornamenti importanti? In questa settimana dovrebbero esserne rilasciati due: Leopard 10.5.6 e il firmware 2.2 per iPhone e iPod Touch. Attualmente, però, sono solo indiscrezioni ma le probabilità di vederli a giorni sono molto alte. Questa e altre notizie sul numero di Melamorsico di questa settimana, che contiene:

  • La rabbia di chi vuole considerare l'iPhone qualcosa che non e'
  • Obama e' un Macuser
  • L'iPhone e' il telefono con meno difetti di produzione
  • Ballmer: "Che bello l'App Store. Ora lo copiamo"
  • Memopal, l'iDisk gratuito per iPhone
  • Ora la Ferrari compatibile con l'iPod Touch
  • Orange porta a 99 € il prezzo dell'iPhone 3G
  • Apple apre il negozio on line nell'Asia orientale
  • Wordpress prepara la versione 1.2 per iPhone
  • Gradimento Mac, altro spot interattivo "Get a Mac"
  • Obamafy, obamizzati con Photo Booth
  • iPhone come modem: 30 $ in piu' e fino a 5 GB
  • Leopard 10.5.6 potenziera' la sincronizzazione di MobileMe
  • Un MacBook Air in fibra di carbonio per abbassare il peso?
  • Aggiornamento per iPod Nano 4G e iPod Classic
  • Sticky Notes, una nota come sfondo dell'iPhone
  • Se Matrix usasse Windows?
  • Disponibile Safari 3.2 con filtro anti phishing
  • Apple pensa a un suo motore di ricerca?
  • Apple brevetta il dock del futuro tablet?
  • In India venduti solo 11.000 iPhone?
  • A messa basta l'iPhone e iBreviary
  • CupSpeakers, trasforma le cuffiette in due altoparlanti
  • iPhone: Google progetta la ricerca vocale
  • Papermaster fa causa ad IBM
  • La guida di stile di Apple
  • Fieldrunners, costruisci torri e ferma il nemico
  • CSI Miami disponibile per iPhone
  • Il credo dei Macuser

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520p 11/16 Update: Shuttle docks with space station

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CBS NEWS STS-126 STATUS REPORT: 21
Posted: 5:20 PM, 11/16/08

By William Harwood
CBS News Space Analyst

Changes and additions:

   SR-18 (11/16/08): Shuttle closes in on space station; crew awake
   SR-19 (11/16/08): Terminal phase of space station rendezvous begins
   SR-20 (11/16/08): Shuttle docks with space station
   SR-21 (11/16/08): Endeavour docks with space station

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5:20 PM, 11/16/08, Update: Shuttle Endeavour docks with space station

The space shuttle Endeavour, piloted by commander Chris Ferguson from the aft flight deck, glided to a picture-perfect docking with the international space station today as the two spacecraft sailed through orbital darkness 212 miles above northeastern India at five miles per second.

"On the big loop, capture confirmed," an astronaut called at 5:01 p.m. as the docking mechanisms engaged to begin the process of locking the two vehicles together. It will take about an hour and a half to complete the process and carry out leak checks before hatches can be opened and Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke and his two station crewmates can welcome the seven shuttle fliers aboard.

Docking capped a textbook rendezvous that began with launch Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center. Ferguson and pilot Eric Boe began the terminal phase of the procedure at 2:27 p.m., trailing the station by about 9 statute miles. By 4 p.m., Endeavour was positioned directly below the lab complex for a now-routine post-Columbia pitch-around maneuver intended to expose the shuttle's heat-shield tiles to digital cameras aboard the station.

While Ferguson carried out a 360-degree flip, Fincke and outgoing flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff photographed the shuttle's belly with 400-mm and 800-mm telephoto lenses to help engineers assess the overall health of Endeavour's heat shield. While it will take several more days to complete that assessment, Fincke said the heat shield looked good through the camera.

"These kind of lenses are in essence big telescopes and Greg and I, with our professionally trained eyes, could not see anything obvious on the shuttle," Fincke radioed. "It looked like it was clean and dry, as we say. It looked really good."

"That's great to hear," Mark Vande Hei replied from the space station control center.

With the rendezvous pitch maneuver complete, Ferguson flew Endeavour up to a point directly ahead of the space station with its cargo bay facing the lab and its nose aimed at deep space. From there, he carefully guided the shuttle in to a docking at a pressurized mating adapter on the front of the Harmony module.

"Endeavour, Houston, on the big loop," astronaut Steve Robinson called from the shuttle control center a few minutes later. "The team down here on planet Earth wanted to compliment you on a well-done, very nicely done rendezvous and docking. It's great to see Endeavour docked with the international space station. And we can also pass that on for all the family ops going on in the viewing room behind us."

"On behalf of Heide and I, it's great to be back," Ferguson replied. He and crewmate Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper visited the station together on their first flight in 2006. Their crewmates this time around include Boe, station-veteran Don Pettit, rookies Stephen Bowen, Shane Kimbrough and shuttle veteran Sandy Magnus, who will replace Chamitoff as a member of the Expedition 18 crew.

"I don't think there's anybody more happy to be back than Don, though, and I know Shane and Eric and Steve are happy to be visiting for the first time," Ferguson continued. "And I know Sandy's happy to be at her new home."

"Roger that, and there just might be some smiles on the other side of that hatch going on, too," Robinson said.

"I bet there are."

Fincke then chimed in, saying "I don't know who's smiling more, Greg, myself or Yury (Lonchakov). Can't wait to open the hatch, guys, and welcome you aboard. And very smooth, very beautiful docking. And you looked clean and dry on the RPM."

Going into the terminal rendezvous sequence, engineers were unsure whether Endeavour's KU-band antenna would function properly in radar mode to provide long-range navigational data to the ship's flight computers. The crew was trained to use the shuttle's star trackers as a backup, but the KU antenna operated normally in radar mode and there were no problems of any significance.

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Quick-Launch Web Links:

CBS News STS-126 Status Reports:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html

CBS News STS-126 Quick-Look Page:
http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/currentglance.html

NASA ISS Expeditions Page:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/index.html

NASA Shuttle Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/index.html
NASA Station Web: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html
Spaceflight Now: http://spaceflightnow.com/index.html
GoogleSatTrack: http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking/

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With over 23 years of marriage under our belts, we have found the following strategies work best to love intentionally; to love authentically and to love consciously.

Show Appreciation

A simple "thank you" in response to a trivial or ordinary item can make a significant difference. It only takes a few short moments to utter these two words, but the impact can be felt for a very long time.

Showing gratitude is also the best strategy for ensuring the things you are most grateful for continue to happen. When we stop and tell our partners what we are grateful for, we are also telling the Universe. By making the effort, the conscious decision, to express our thanks we are in a better position of receiving more of it in the future.

If you want your partner to be grateful, it starts by you showing gratitude, first.

Be Happy, Not Right

Here's a question for you, "Would you rather be right, or happy?" Too often our pride and egos can keep us from enjoying intimate relationships. We stew over what we think are injustices, but are perhaps only misunderstandings.

We carry grudges and do not show enough grace, passion or forgiveness to the person we care most about. Our need to be right can overshadow our need to receive, and give, love.

Take a look at what your pride is costing you. If intimacy is strained and the relationship is off track you may want to reconsider the value of your anger or self righteousness. Here's the thing: You may be right in the argument although you partner thinks otherwise, but you will never be wrong when you put your partner first. Happiness always feels better than vindication.

No Day But Today

What would you say to your partner if you knew this was the last day you would be together? Would you complain about the television being too loud, or would you remind your partner of their value and significance?

Life does have an expiration date. This isn't meant to be a downer – just a reality we all share. It's what you do with this information that will make the difference. While it's very difficult to sustain a high-level of connection and passion on a day-to-day basis, there are some simple things you can do to convey your partner's importance to let them know they are important today:

  • Kiss your mate at least twice a day
  • Leave a quick note just to say "hi," or "I love you"
  • Never do anything you wouldn't want your partner to know
  • Be fully present when they need to talk or share something important
  • Make the effort to spend some time together each day
  • Give a compliment
  • Make your partner feel important
  • Smile

No Judgments

Judgments are often times rooted in perception, not reality. Judgments are also a piece of how you see the world, not the way the world, or in this case your partner, actually exists.

The harm with judgments is resentment and anger are typically the outcomes – not the change that is expected. When a judgment is made, there is an implied belief the behavior or trait being judged should be corrected. However, the person receiving the judgment does not always share the same expectation.

As a result, communication is impaired, connection is deteriorated and conflict ensues. To love deliberately and consciously requires loving your partner with a different filter – a cleaner filter that does not have the residue of past containments.

Be Aware of Your Own Thoughts & Feelings

Loving authentically is dependent on loving yourself, first. Before you share love, and share yourself with someone, it is important to beware of what you want. Reality suggests, however, we fall in love and begin relationships before we have a clear idea of our own true feelings.

When this happens, there is still plenty of time to discover your needs – this is called growth. Give yourself opportunities outside of the relationship. Build friendships and pursue interests on your own.

A good relationship exists when both people can live without the other, but choose to be together. A relationship built on a foundation of sharing different interests cultivates more life and depth into it.

You own your thoughts and feelings. These make you unique and keep you grounded with who you really are or growing to become. By doing so, you are in a much better position to love freely and honestly. Nature has a way of taking care of those things we put the most energy in and want to grow even stronger.

Loving Consciously

The power of love extends its reach when we will love intentionally. Real love, authentic love, springs to life and is sustained when we make the choice to feed it with our deliberate passion. Our souls are nourished when our partners realize we know how to love them.

There will be a day when I no longer share this life with my wife. When that day arrives, my hope is she will know my intent was to discover exactly what she wanted and my conscious choice was to give her more of that.

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