NASA at 10:30 a.m. today will host a closing ceremony for the Merritt Island Launch Annex tracking station, which supported its last mission with Atlantis' launch and landing this month.
This historic tracking station was commissioned for the Apollo Program and also provided orbital support for low earth-orbiting scientific satellites, according to a NASA press release.
The first launch it supported was the Apollo/Saturn 203 test flight on July 5, 1966, from Launch Complex 37.
Its two signature 30-foot steerable S-band antennas together with a pair of UHF antennas have been the primary source of voice, data and telemetry for the space shuttle during the first 7.5 minutes of flight, and later provided the communications for landing beginning 13 minutes before touchdown.
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3 comments:
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just another sign of The END of NASA
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Charles Bolden at the KSC after the Shuttle retirement:
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http://www.ghostnasa.com/posts2/075endofnasa.html
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HAS BOLDEN AND REED LOST THEIR JOB YEY. UNTIL THE NEXT MANNED SPACE PROGRAM THEY BOTH TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE AS GREAT????????"????
when will Bolden and Reed be layed off until the next amnned space program starts, so they can feel the pain.
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