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Shuttle Atlantis was successfully
launched today (April 8, 2002) at 4:44:19 p.m.
carrying the seven STS-110 crewmembers on their 11-day construction
mission to the International Space Station.
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T-5 seconds, main engines coming up to full power
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Atlantis roared into a clear Florida sky with
11 seconds to spare in the launch window after data dropouts in a backup
processing system were encountered in the last minutes of what had been a
flawless countdown. |
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Liftoff +2 seconds
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At about the 6-minute, 30-second mark in the
count, dropouts of radio frequency data occurred in the standby unit for
the Launch Processing System (LPS). A hold was called at T-5 minutes, and
the LPS team in the Launch Control Center reacted by successfully
re-loading the data, allowing the countdown to proceed.
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Liftoff +10 seconds. Atlantis
is in mid roll program.
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Atlantis performed smoothly during the
8-minutes and 30 seconds of powered flight, and all systems on-board are
operating normally.
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Liftoff + 36 seconds.
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Liftoff + 52 seconds.
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Liftoff + 136 seconds. Spent boosters
are falling away.
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Commander Mike Bloomfield guided Shuttle Atlantis to a
smooth touch down on south-north Runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center
today, completing a record-setting 11- day STS-110 construction mission to
the International Space Station (ISS).
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38 seconds to main gear touch down
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Atlantis' main landing gear touched down on the Shuttle
Landing Facility (SLF) runway on the first opportunity at about 12:27 p.m.
after logging more than 4.5 million miles during 171 orbits of the earth.
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33 seconds to main gear touchdown
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The seven STS-110 crew members exited the Crew Transfer
Vehicle about 1½ - hours after landing to perform the traditional
walk-around inspection of the orbiter before proceeding to their crew
quarters. The astronauts are scheduled to return to Houston tomorrow.
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+9 seconds -- Atlantis rolls out after
touchdown
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Initial inspections of Atlantis indicate the orbiter has
returned in good shape. Atlantis sustained 65 debris hits during the
mission, 17 of them an inch or greater. Overall, the number of hits is below
the normal.
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+15 seconds -- Atlantis continues its
rollout
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Unofficial Shuttle Landing Timetable:
Nose Gear 12:26:57 p.m. 10 days, 19 hours, 42
minutes, 38 seconds MET
Main Gear 12:27:09 p.m. 10 days, 19 hours, 42
minutes, 50 seconds MET
Wheels Stop 12:28:07p.m. 10 days, 19 hours, 43
minutes, 48 seconds MET
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keafe talks
to the media after the successful landing of the STS-110/Atlantis mission.
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