If you subscribe to Spaceflight Now + Plus, you also have access to a large number of videos.
I don't so just have to look elsewhere for more information.
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Decommissioning work starts for shuttle Discovery
BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: March 28, 2011
And so it begins. Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center have begun taking apart the shuttle Discovery, the ship now a laboratory specimen for engineering forensics before her future date with a museum.
Inside orbiter hangar No. 2 last week, the shuttle's nose piece containing the control thrusters used to maneuver the spacecraft was removed and taken to the hypergolic maintenance facility for decommissioning.
It's the first visible sign of critical post-flight safing work now underway on the three-decade-old Discovery as she goes into retirement.
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Decommissioning work starts for shuttle Discovery
BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: March 28, 2011
And so it begins. Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center have begun taking apart the shuttle Discovery, the ship now a laboratory specimen for engineering forensics before her future date with a museum.
Inside orbiter hangar No. 2 last week, the shuttle's nose piece containing the control thrusters used to maneuver the spacecraft was removed and taken to the hypergolic maintenance facility for decommissioning.
It's the first visible sign of critical post-flight safing work now underway on the three-decade-old Discovery as she goes into retirement.
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More info.
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http://dvice.com/archives/
Gallery: Discovery gets disassembled, prepped for retirement
It's been just a few weeks since the space shuttle Discovery returned from her last mission to orbit, and already she's being partially disassembled and cleaned to prepare her for her final resting place, replacing Enterprise at the Smithsonian.
The pictures in the gallery below show technicians at Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility removing the forward reaction control system (FRCS) from Discovery's nose. The FRCS is an array of little rocket engines used to help shuttles make precise movements and change their orientation. Being rocket engines, they tend to be filled with a bunch of explosively toxic chemicals, so the whole assembly needs to be cleaned out and de-blowupified before tourists will be allowed to poke it. The engines themselves will be removed and replaced with replicas, while the originals will go into storage to potentially be used on a future launch vehicle.
Also in the gallery are some other pics (from different missions) to give you a better sense of what the Orbiter Processing Facility looks like.
NASA and KSC, via Spaceflight Now
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NASA link from above for info on Discovery retirement.
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http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
Retirement a New Beginning for Discovery
03.16.11
A long list of inspections await space shuttle Discovery as technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida take the first steps to prepare the agency's oldest active orbiter for retirement.
Discovery touched down Wednesday, March 9, just before noon to complete the 13-day STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle and its crew of six astronauts delivered the last pressurized module to the U.S. side of the orbiting outpost, a large closet of sorts called the Permanent Multipurpose Module.
Standing on the runway at Kennedy, STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey described bittersweet feelings of bringing home NASA's most veteran orbiter for its 39th and final time.
"As the minutes pass, I'm actually getting sadder and sadder about this being the last flight and I know all the folks involved with the shuttle program feel the same way," Lindsey said.
A few hours after landing at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility, Discovery was back inside an orbiter processing facility going through standard post-landing procedures.
A long list of inspections await space shuttle Discovery as technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida take the first steps to prepare the agency's oldest active orbiter for retirement.
Discovery touched down Wednesday, March 9, just before noon to complete the 13-day STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle and its crew of six astronauts delivered the last pressurized module to the U.S. side of the orbiting outpost, a large closet of sorts called the Permanent Multipurpose Module.
Standing on the runway at Kennedy, STS-133 Commander Steve Lindsey described bittersweet feelings of bringing home NASA's most veteran orbiter for its 39th and final time.
"As the minutes pass, I'm actually getting sadder and sadder about this being the last flight and I know all the folks involved with the shuttle program feel the same way," Lindsey said.
A few hours after landing at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility, Discovery was back inside an orbiter processing facility going through standard post-landing procedures.
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KSC has an extensive Media Gallery.
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http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.
Kennedy Space Center
Media Search
STS-133
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.
Select Videos and key word 'discovery' in "Search Media Gallery" box to narrow selection of videos.
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And Congress is still having trouble passing a budget so NASA sort of adrift.
Plans are good, and it takes funding to accomplish.
It helps to be able to decide on the plan as well.
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