She was helped off the orbiter by flight surgeons and escorted to crew quarters for medical checks and a reunion with her husband and 7-year-old son.
The astronauts will test the orbiter's flight systems today in preparation for a scheduled landing tomorrow at Cape Canaveral, Fla., weather permitting; otherwise, the shuttle will remain in orbit another day.
She was helped off the orbiter by flight surgeons and was escorted to crew quarters for medical checks and a reunion with her husband and 7-year-old son.
Engineers are moving swiftly to prepare the remaining three shuttles to return to space, pressing ahead with a redesign of key components of the external fuel tank and discussing new ways to apply foam insulation and to repair the orbiter in flight.
The design life of the orbiter was 100 flights, so the wing was tested to 400 flights, he said.
But not all temporary orbiters escape.
One of the key issues right now is the ever shortening time window to get the 2016 orbiter ready for flight.
Now, this was reported by the flight controller responsible for the mechanical and hydraulic systems, and the orbiter reported to the flight director.
The latter ones are aggravated by the attitude navigation error as it accumulates during the ballistic (and aerodynamic) flight after orbiter separation and couples for most of the descent trajectory with the vehicle axis inclination from the local vertical direction.
We describe the results of the Laser Ranging (LR) experiment carried out from June 2009 to September 2014 in order to make one-way time-of-flight measurements of laser pulses between Earth-based laser ranging stations and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) orbiting the Moon.
