STS-134: Space Shuttle Endeavour's last Mission

The best of the best, it's a compilation of the featured moments captured by NASA Television during the mission of Endeavour and its six-man crew to the International Space Station.

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Science & Technology

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• NASA
• STS-134
• Mission
• Highlights

[PS3CRAZY96]

Quite sad tbh watched the landing and knowing it will never be back above our heads in quite something ......... : /

[Jerry113]

quality documentary

[geomodelrailroader]

@aimhigh59 Ok OK I get you on this 

[aimhigh59]

@geomodelrailroader You ought to stick to RR. The trucks are purge & cool trucks. The cool truck pumps freon to the coldplates of the 300 or so black boxes in the orbiter while the orbiter is powered down. Coldplates remove heat. The purge truck purges the air in the payload bay and aft compartment until air can be pumped in from the OPF. Your wrong about APU's. I've done 87 landings and worked on the orbiters for 25 yrs.

[geomodelrailroader]

@aimhigh59 they drain the shuttle during tow they are called vent trucks they have long booms to reach the APUs and vent all the hydrazine out and your right the final work is done in the hanger when they remove to tanks to be washed.

[aimhigh59]

@geomodelrailroader The crew gets off when their post landing task are done. The deservicing of the orbiter takes about a week. The draining of any tanks is done in the hanger (OPF). Dont know where you get the 6 hours from. Some maintenance is very intrusive and takes the full 3 months between flights during the busy yrs.

[aimhigh59]

@geomodelrailroader I dont know what your uncle does but many people work for the program and dont actually work on the orbiter or understand it. Again, nothing is vented on the runway. As the crew powers down systems the one thing you dont want is something venting or leaking. The ground crew sniffs for leaks around thrusters and exhaust to make sure of this. The equip. that is hooked up is a purge truck to purge out pockets of gases and a cooling truck to keep the black boxes cool. Next post.

[geomodelrailroader]

@aimhigh59 maybe but my uncle works for the shuttle program I know what I am talking about. the area around the shuttle is dangerous when it lands so venting is the first step before any equipment is attached. that comment about the lines scratch it. their may be extra fuel in the lines but the vapor has to be burnt off or equipment can't be hooked up. when it is shutdown then they can drain the tank at this time the crew also gets off because it will take 6 hours to drain the orbiter.

[aimhigh59]

@geomodelrailroader That makes no sense what so ever. Your expierence with the shuttle comes from Wikipedia and Google. Thats easy to see.

[maxas83]

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