May 15, 2009 Vol. 49, No. 10 Spaceport News John F. - America’s gateway to the universe

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INSIDE . . . Momentos head for Hubble Atlantis heads for Hubble on final upgrade mission

By Linda Herridge Spaceport News

Page 2 pace shuttle Atlantis’ STS-125 mission enter thundered off Kennedy Space Center’s hall of fame SLaunch Pad 39A, at 2:01 p.m. EDT May 11, on the fifth and final servicing mission. Atlantis carried seven crew members, four special payload carriers filled with new instruments, and the equipment and tools needed to upgrade the or- biting observatory. “It’s a great day to go fly,” said Shuttle Page 3 Launch Director Mike Leinbach, to the crew during launch countdown. “On behalf of Comedian treads Kennedy’s processing and launch team, I’d like to wish you, your crew and the whole Hubble in space Space Telescope team a great mission.” leads the STS-125 mission as commander, with Gregory C. Johnson as pilot. Mission specialists are Michael Good, Megan McArthur, John Grunsfeld, Atlantis and Andrew Feustel. It is the first spaceflight for roars into the sky above Good, McArthur and Feustel. Launch Pad 39A at Page 6 During the 11-day mission, Grunsfeld, Kennedy Space Center on May 11 at 2:01 Feustel, Massimino and Good will perform five p.m. EDT. During the Heritage: spacewalks to install new instruments and make 11-day flight and five Apollo 10 repairs or upgrades to other instruments on spacewalks, STS-125 Hubble. They also will install new gyroscopes, mission astronauts will orbits moon refurbish and upgrade battery modules and thermal blankets to support NASA’s Hubble Space Hubble through at least 2014. Telescope to expand its Two new instruments are the Cosmic Ori- capabilities and extend its operational lifespan gins Spectrograph and the Wide Field Camera 3. through at least 2014. Mission specialists also will make the first ever, in-orbit repairs to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, or COS, is the most sensitive ultraviolet spectrograph ever flown on Hubble.

See HUBBLE, Page 2 Photo by NASA/Tony Gray-Tom Farrar Page 7 Page 2 SPACEPORT NEWS May 15, 2009 Hubble inspires astronauts to bring momentos

By Steven Siceloff a basketball that astronomer Edwin Spaceport News Hubble, the namesake of the space telescope, played with while on the rom a model of NASA’s Harvard University basketball team. Hubble Space Telescope to The ball has been deflated so it will Fa patch from the not take up as much room inside the City Sanitation Department, the shuttle. STS-125 mission astronauts are While is boundless, marking the flight by taking a wide the space inside the shuttle is ex- variety of mementos with them into tremely limited. That’s why NASA orbit. allows astronauts a small amount of The crew of seven will spend room on each mission for collect- 11 days in space upgrading Hubble ibles or things they want to carry to during what is expected to be the mark their achievements. Some of last shuttle mission to the venerable the items reflect organizations as- observatory. tronauts were a part of, while others That mission is reflected in are taken up to give to friends when several items that make up the they get back. astronauts’ official flight kit. There’s Several schools are represented a pocket telescope and a 1.5-inch in the flight kit, including Clear diameter telescope lens. By com- Springs High School in League parison, the Hubble mirror is almost City, Texas, Schmitz Park Elemen- eight feet across. tary in Seattle, and Lake Orion High The astronauts also are taking School in Lake Orion, Mich. Three conductor batons will be stowed inside Atlantis, including one from the Symphony orchestra. Atlantis also will take a ticket NASA file/1997 stub from the 2006 U.S. Open and a The STS-125 mission astronauts are taking scores of momentos up to NASA’s Hubble Space swimming cap from the U.S. Olym- Telescope, and will return them to for space enthusiasts and friends. STS-125 is the fifth and final shuttle Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. Upgrades are intended to keep the telescope pic swim team. operating through at least 2014. While some of the items look at the recent past as far as Hubble’s after the shuttles retire. Shuttle Program bookmarks also extraordinary accomplishments, The agency itself also includes will fly with Atlantis. a couple items look forward to scores of souvenirs that are some- As you might imagine, there NASA’s new spacecraft. There is times passed out to workers and are more Hubble commemorative a patch and decal from the Orion managers, or given to world leaders. items on STS-125 than anything crew exploration vehicle project, There are 625 mission patches, else. Those are 5,643 patches which is developing the capsule in- plus 600 American flags. reflecting different aspects of the tended to carry astronauts into space Another 700 sheets of Space telescope program.

From HUBBLE, Page 1 Advanced Camera for Surveys, these nedy), the whole team, everyone has at 11:41 a.m. EDT May 22. The pay- two instruments could create Hubble pulled together. We’re taking a little load carriers with old Hubble parts “It (COS) is designed to study imaging history. piece of all of us into space,” said will be removed from Atlantis’ pay- large-scale structure of the universe The Space Telescope Imaging STS-125 Commander Scott Altman load bay and transported to Goddard and how galaxies, stars and planets Spectrograph is the most versatile to Leinbach, moments before liftoff. Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, formed and evolved,” said Debbie spectrograph to fly on Hubble. The NASA’s Hubble Space Tele- Md. The old parts will be studied for Hahn, the STS-125 payload man- crew will replace an electronics scope was deployed on April 25, thermal property degradation and ager. “It will help determine how ele- board in one of the spectrograph’s 1990, during Discovery’s STS-31 micrometeorite damage. ments needed for life, such as carbon main electronics boxes to restore its mission. Previous servicing missions Space shuttle Endeavour is on and iron, first formed and how their power supply. are Endeavour’s STS-61 mission Launch Pad 39B during Atlantis’ abundance have increased over the A new Science Instrument Com- in December 1993; Discovery’s Hubble mission and is designated lifetime of the universe.” mand and Data handling system will STS-82 mission in February 1997; STS-400 in the unlikely event it The Wide Field Camera 3 will replace the one that failed in Hubble Discovery’s STS-103 mission in is needed for a rescue flight. After be able to span our vast electromag- last year and delayed Atlantis’ mis- December 1999; and Columbia’s Atlantis lands, Endeavour will roll netic spectrum. It is the only instru- sion. STS-109 mission in March 2002. around to Launch Pad 39A on ment on Hubble with this capability. “Getting to this point has been Atlantis is scheduled to land at May 30, for its next flight, STS-127 Combined with the repair of the challenging, but your team (Ken- Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility to the International Space Station. May 15, 2009 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 3

NASA/Jim Grossmann The three newest inductees into the U.S. Hall of Fame proudly join current members during an induction ceremony May 2, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. In front, from left, are George “Pinky” Nelson, one of only six space shuttle astronauts to fly untethered in space using NASA’s Manned Maneuvering Unit; , commander of the first crew to live aboard the International Space Station; and James Wetherbee, commander of the longest-docked shuttle mission with space station . More than 20 hall of fame astronauts attended, including Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, , James “Jim” Lovell and Bob Crippen. Trio of shuttle astronauts join hall of fame ommanding five he is a safety auditor with “Every giant leap is re- technologies and capabilities of six space shuttle Did you know? BP Global, one of the larg- ally made up of many small for the nation’s special opera- missions and guiding steps,” Nelson said. “I’m tions forces. C With the inductions of George est energy companies in the Discovery to within 30 feet “Pinky” Nelson and Jim Weth- world. proud to have played a part in “I feel very privileged of space station Mir might erbee, all the original members “I’ve learned a lot over some of those steps.” to be part of the Astronaut inflate anyone’s ego. But not of the astronaut band Max Q, my prestigious career,” Shepherd, a four-time Corps,” Shepherd said, “and astronaut . His which was formed in 1987, are space shuttle astronaut and to be put in space by the folks now in the U.S. Astronaut Hall Wetherbee said. “I really wife, Robin, manages to keep of Fame. appreciate everything I’ve recipient of the Congressional who work (at Kennedy) to the space explorer grounded. learned.” Space Medal of Honor, was build vehicles and help oper- After coming home from a Nelson was a member assigned to NASA from the ate them.” mission, Wetherbee said his This eighth group of of the first spacewalking U.S. Navy SEALs commu- Also introduced at the wife told him: “Great flight, space shuttle astronauts was team to repair a satellite in nity. ceremony were 24 exist- big boy. Now take out the Shepherd is widely ing members of the U.S. welcomed to the ranks of leg- Earth’s orbit. He flew three garbage.” known for filming segments Astronaut Hall of Fame: endary space pioneers, such space shuttle missions dur- Humility was one of of “Space Station,” an award- John Blaha, Vance Brand, as , Edwin ing the 11 years he was in the many things Wetherbee winning IMAX 3-D film Dan Brandenstein, Bob “Buzz” Aldrin, , the Astronaut Corps, from gave thanks for as he joined , and depicting the ground develop- Cabana, Scott Carpenter, George “Pinky” Nelson and 1978 to 1989. ment and on-orbit construc- Bob Crippen, Walt Cunning- . Earlier induct- William Shepherd for induc- Nelson claims the tion of the International ham, , Gordon ees represent the Mercury, tion into the U.S. Astronaut distinction of being the only Space Station. Fullerton, , Ed Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Hall of Fame during a cer- American to test-fly the He commanded the first Gibson, Robert “Hoot” Gib- emony at the Kennedy Space Apollo-Soyuz programs. Russian Manned Maneuver- mission to the space sta- son, Richard Gordon, Fred Center Visitor Complex on Along with his space ing Unit, which he did in tion and lived and worked Gregory, Hank Hartsfield, May 2. shuttle endeavors, Wether- 1989 in Moscow. there for 141 days, from Rick Hauck, , About 600 people hon- bee also served as deputy He now serves as direc- October 2000 to March 2001. Jeff Hoffman, James “Jim” ored the trio as they increased director and director of tor of the Science, Math- Shepherd is now the sci- Lovell, Bruce McCandless, the number of space explor- Flight Crew Operations at ematics, and Technology ence advisor to U.S. Special , Brewster ers enshrined in the hall of NASA’s Johnson Space Education Program at West- Operations Command, where Shaw, and Al fame to 73. Center in Houston. Today, ern Washington University. he manages to develop new Worden. Page 4 SPACEPORT NEWS May 15, 2009 May 15, 2009 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 5 Scenes Around Kennedy Space Center

NASA/Jim Grossmann NASA/Jim Grossmann Rachel Coleman, left, of Signing Time! and children from the Child Development Center teach sign language to workers during Kennedy Space Center’s “It’s About Ability” event April 30. Coleman talked to workers about not turning their backs on individuals with disabilities. Kennedy Space Center marked America’s National Day of Prayer in the Training Auditorium on May 7. The theme for this year’s observance was “Prayer... America’s Hope.” Participants prayed about the sacrifices of the armed forces and their families, as well as America’s space program.

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If you have a hidden talent or an interesting hobby, Spaceport News would like to share it. Send your information to KSC-Spaceport-News@ mail.nasa.gov or mail it to Spaceport News NASA/Jim Grossmann Teachers create a robot using LEGO NXT kits during the “Not Lost in Space! Robots Explore Our Universe” at: IMCS-440, Kennedy Space NASA/Jim Grossmann workshop at Kennedy Space Center’s Educator Research Center on May 2. Participants maneuvered their Reader-submitted photo Center, FL 32988. Ares I-X Deputy Mission Manager Jon Cowart talks about the Constellation Program’s Ares I-X rocket during the KEA-40 Ares I-X robots through rocky terrain, much like the terrain found on distant planets, and performed tasks, such as A Kennedy Space Center worker tells his co-workers about a native that decided to pay a visit to the Parachute Staus in the Kennedy Space Center Training Auditorium on May 6. moving an object from one area to another. Refurbishment Facility on April 29. Page 6 SPACEPORT NEWS May 15, 2009 Far-out! NASA names treadmill after comedian By Steven Siceloff and did what we could with noise.” Spaceport News Now that the treadmill and its support system are designed, built ASA is serious about its and delivered to NASA’s Kennedy space station crew mem- Space Center in Florida, another Nbers exercising in orbit, but team of is getting it ready that doesn’t mean the agency can’t to survive the rigorous vibrations of have a little fun along the way. another kind: launch. That’s why a treadmill engi- COLBERT has been disas- neers had called simply T-2 for sembled into scores of parts and more than two years is suddenly fa- separated into more than six bags mous as the Combined Operational that will be strapped to racks inside Load-Bearing External Resistance the Leonardo cargo module. Leon- Treadmill, or COLBERT. NASA ardo, one of NASA’s multi-purpose selected the treadmill’s name after logistics modules, or MPLMs, will comedian and host Stephen Colbert be carried to the station by space of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert shuttle Discovery during the STS- Report” took interest during the 128 mission later this year. Node 3 naming census and urged Famous or not, the packing his followers to post the name team intends to make sure every- “Colbert,” which received the most thing that is launched reaches the entries. station in good working order. “I think it’s great for NASA “If it’s the COLBERT, or if it’s that Mr. Colbert got his audience something else, it’s still not going interested in the space station,” NASA/Jack Pfaller to be useful in orbit if it’s broken,” said Curt Wiederhoeft of Wyle. A worker inside Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility prepares to pack pieces of said Pete Gauthier, packing engi- He is the project manager for the the Combined Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT, for its trip to the International neer for United Space Alliance. treadmill under the bioastronautics Space Station. The treadmill is named after comedian Stephen Colbert, the host of Comedy Central’s “The difference with some- “The Colbert Report.” , targeted to launch Aug. 6, 2009, and its STS-128 crew will contract. “Comedy Central attracts deliver the treadmill to the station. COLBERT will be transferred and installed in the station’s Tranquility thing like this is that it’s big and it’s a lot of younger viewers, and the node after it launches next year. heavy, so we have to use our big- space program’s going to need gest bag,” he said. “It’s easier for the next generation’s support and the runner to the mill relied on a the crew if you have all the pieces interest.” surface of the powered system in one bag, but when you have six Wiederhoeft’s team heard treadmill, design- of gyroscopes bags, you just can’t do that.” about the name a month ago. ers call on elastic and mecha- The astronauts on the sta- “When they first mentioned it, straps that fit nisms to reduce tion are expected to spend about it was a distraction that we couldn’t around the shoul- vibrations, the 20 hours putting the whole thing afford because we were on a tight ders and waist to COLBERT’s together, including the vibration timetable,” he said. “Now that keep the runner Vibration Isola- system. After that, the only care we’re down here and it’s delivered, from rocketing tion System was COLBERT should need is an oc- it’s great. It’s a fun thing to think across the space designed to work casional greasing of its bearings. about.” station with the without power COLBERT will reside first The treadmill, arguably the first hard step. and be more reli- inside the Harmony module, most famous one ever built, will The straps create a feeling of able than its predecessor. which connects the European and be the second installed aboard the running while wearing a backpack, The treadmill will rest on Japanese laboratories on the sta- space station. NASA requires eight Wiederhoeft said. springs that are hooked to damp- tion. The treadmill rack will be hours of exercise each day from on the floor of the node, although Next, designers had to work eners. That unit is connected to a the space station crew members as in weightlessness the orientation out a way to keep the treadmill standard-sized rack that has been a group. The one already in space doesn’t matter as much as it does from shaking the whole station extensively reinforced to handle can handle the load of three crew on Earth. with every step. That’s easy to do the power produced by COLBERT members, but would not be enough Later, COLBERT will move users. The rack alone weighs 2,200 for an expanded station crew of six. on Earth, but the station is floating into Tranquility, the station’s third Engineers started with a medi- just like the astronauts and wants to pounds, which is its limit. node, which is targeted to launch cal treadmill available to anyone on react against any movement. Even COLBERT also is louder aboard STS-130. Current plans call Earth. They asked the manufacturer small actions can shake up delicate than the first treadmill, a trade-off for COLBERT to be placed against to nickel plate the parts and make microgravity experiments taking Wiederhoeft said is necessary to the wall inside Tranquility. some other modifications, but it is place inside the station’s laborato- increase its reliability. The treadmill is designed to fundamentally the same running-in- ries. “Noise and reliability are last the life of the station. Although place device as the others. Developing a system to stop fighting against each other here,” it is built to handle 150,000 miles The structures around it are a the vibrations was the biggest chal- Wiederhoeft said. “With a lot more of running, it will likely see about different story. lenge, Wiederhoeft said. time we could have had both quiet 38,000 miles during its time in First, without gravity to hold While the first station tread- and reliable. We went for reliable, orbit, Wiederhoeft said. May 15, 2009 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 7 Remembering Our Heritage Lunar module put through its paces on Apollo 10 This story is the second in a More online series of four Apollo articles. To read astronauts Tom Stafford and ’s oral history By Kay Grinter interviews in their entirety, visit: Reference Librarian www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/ oral_histories/participants.htm he 40th anniversary of the Apollo 10 launch May 18, 1969, from Kennedy Space T originally, one time early on in the Center’s Launch Pad 39B also marks program, the fourth Apollo flight the only time the pad was used to launch a Saturn V rocket. Liftoff was was going to be the first attempt at just before midnight. landing.” The fourth crewed launch in the Although the Apollo 10 crew did Apollo program, Apollo 10 was a not make the history books for that dress rehearsal for the lunar land- historic first step, they set a speed re- ing to follow. The mission’s primary cord still acknowledged in the “Guin- objective was to demonstrate that ness Book of World Records.” The a lunar module -- the LM -- and a re-entry on their return home May 26, command module -- the CM -- could 1969, was at 24,816 mph, the fastest rendezvous in lunar orbit, one of any humans have ever traveled. the last assurances needed before an Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean actual touchdown on the moon. was a mere 7,000 yards from its On their way to the moon, CM recovery ship, the USS Princeton. Pilot John Young separated the CM Before modifications to pad 39B called Charlie Brown, from the LM began in 1979 for the shuttle pro- called Snoopy, then docked with the gram, it also supported four Saturn LM while Commander Tom Stafford IB launches: three with Skylab crews and LM Pilot Gene Cernan operated aboard and one carrying the Ameri- a television camera. Back on Earth, can team in the Apollo-Soyuz Test television viewers were treated to the Project. first color images from space, includ- Now, 20 years later, modifica- ing the first space maneuver seen in tions to pad 39B to support the Ares real time -- the docking of Charlie I rocket that will launch the Orion Brown with Snoopy. crew module for NASA’s Constella- Stafford’s piloting skills were tion Program are under way with the put to the test when an anomaly in construction of three 600-foot-tall Snoopy’s automatic abort guidance lightning towers. system caused its ascent stage to Other work will start after the experience extreme gyrations. By Ares I-X flight test. The fixed and taking over manual control, Stafford rotating service structures will be was able to re-establish the proper removed, a new emergency egress attitude. system constructed, all pad to mobile During an interview in 1997, launcher interfaces modified, a new Stafford recalled that he and Cernan pad deck to mobile launcher elevator “got it squared away in about 20 sec- system built, and modern electrical onds.” However, in the excitement, electronic systems installed. “we forgot we were on hot mike,” NASA Launch Pad Senior he said, “and Apollo 10 became Project Manager Jose Perez-Morales X-rated.” foresees the visual impact these Once at the moon, Snoopy coast- changes will bring. ed in the equivalent of a standard “These modifications will LM insertion orbit of a lunar landing significantly change the landscape mission, coming within nine miles of of pad B, especially when the fixed the lunar surface. and rotating service structures are re- “We came within about 47,000 moved.” Perez-Morales said. “When NASA file/1969 feet but did not land,” Cernan said all the work is complete, this launch Apollo 10 rolls out from Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B on during an interview in 2007. “That’s March 11, 1969. The Saturn V rocket launched at 12:49 p.m. May 18, 1969, and became a dress pad will look quite a bit different than the way it was planned, although rehearsal for the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. it did during the Apollo Program.” Page 8 SPACEPORT NEWS May 15, 2009

Camp Kennedy Spring Session Begins June 8 ON Camp Kennedy Space Center offers Commander’s Club Annual Pass – a full year of THE children entering second through ninth fun at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Com- WORD STREET grade an out-of-this-world experience to plex. Also included are lunches and afternoon explore space. Summer camp sessions are snacks, an official camp KSC T-shirt, graduation The spaceport is home to many types of animals as seen on Page 5. available June 8 through Aug. 14. ceremony and certificate of completion. What has been your most memorable encounter with wildlife? Regular tuition is $295 per child, per In celebration of the 40th anniversary of session. Badged employees and contrac- Apollo, a special overnight adventure will be held on Monday, July 20, at the Apollo/Saturn tors of Kennedy, Cape Canaveral Air Force V Center where participants will camp out Station, Patrick Air Force Base and retired “I walked right up to a bobcat . . . she didn’t move beneath a Saturn V moon rocket. This special and I never took my eyes off of her.” Kennedy personnel can save 15 percent on night is available to campers attending the regular camp tuition. week of July 20-24. Campers’ family members Thomas Partin, The camp’s home base is at the U.S. also can camp out for $85, plus tax, per person. with Sierra Lobo Inc. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Summer camp Cost includes a 40th anniversary T-shirt, dinner, hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with ex- breakfast and lunar-themed snacks. tended early drop-off and late pick-up hours For more information and registration available free for badged employees. details, call 321-449-4444 or visit “I was on Converter Compressor Road and a Campers will receive a complimentary www.KennedySpaceCenter.com. bobcat and her cubs crossed my path.” Guy Fazzio, with Jacobs Engineering Submit speaker abstracts for PM Challenge 2010 Do you have a topic of interest to NASA program and project management stakeholders? Submit your speaker proposal for PM Challenge 2010 “Above and Beyond” in Galveston, Texas. “I was very sad when I came across an alligator Submissions are due Aug. 7. For more information, go to: facing off with a manatee.” http://pmchallenge.gsfc.nasa.gov/speaker2010.htm Cat Houle, with Yang Enterprises Inc.

Looking up and ahead “I ran into a stubborn pig that refused to get out of Targeted for May 22 Landing/KSC Shuttle Landing Facility: 11:41 a.m. the middle of the road . . . turns out he was hurt.” Larry Griffith, No earlier than June 2 Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, LRO/LCROSS; 3:22 p.m. with Sierra Lobo Inc. Targeted for June 13 Launch/KSC: Endeavour, STS-127; 7:19 a.m.

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July Launch/CCAFS: Falcon 9; TBD “On the way to Launch Pad 39B, a bobcat and I Target Aug. 6 Launch/KSC: Atlantis, STS-128; TBD stopped and looked at each other for awhile.” No earlier than Aug. 17 Launch/CCAFS: Delta II, STSS Demo; TBD Jeff Simmons, with EG&G Technical Services Inc. No earlier than Aug. 21 Launch/CCAFS: Delta II, GPS IIR-21; TBD

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