![]() ![]() Before joining, Tariq was a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times covering education and city beats in La Habra, Fullerton and Huntington Beach. ![]() He became 's Managing Editor in 2009 and Editor-in-Chief in 2019. He covers human spaceflight, exploration and space science, as well as skywatching and entertainment. ![]() ![]() Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of and joined the team in 2001, first as an intern and staff writer, and later as an editor. Complete Space Shuttle Mission Coverage.VIDEO: Teaching the Future: Teacher-Astronaut Barbara Morgan.Click here for mission updates 's NASA TV feed. NASA isbroadcasting Endeavour's STS-118 mission live on NASA TV. "It'smuch more like a normal landing day," he said. Stich saidpreparing for today's landing has been considerably more palatable than ponderingthe earlier implications of Hurricane Dean. NASA hasthe capability of landing Endeavour at a backup runway at California's EdwardsAir Force Base in the Mojave Desert today, but will likely forgo that optionand wait for Wednesday should a Florida touchdown prove untenable thisafternoon, Stich said.īy landingin Florida, NASA can cut down the amount of time required to prepare an orbiterfor its next flight, as well as save about $1.7 million in extra costsassociated with hauling a shuttle across the U.S. But its astronaut crew would not be able to see the storm throughEndeavour's windows due to the shuttle's flight path, the space agency added. "HurricaneDean is kind of trending away, so we don?t think that?s going to be afactor," NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson told Endeavour's crew from MissionControl Monday.īycoincidence, should Endeavour wave off its first landing attempt today, the100-ton spacecraft would pass over Hurricane Dean at an altitude of about180,000 feet (54,864 meters) for the 2:06 p.m. At the time, it appeared the massive storm could swing north to hitcoastal Texas and prompt an evacuation of Mission Control.Īs of lateMonday, however, the storm was continuing on a course towards central Mexico,according to the National Hurricane Center. Morgan,NASA's backup for Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe before the 1986 Challengertragedy, left pair of expandable plant growth chambers and basil seeds aboardthe ISS for station astronauts to cultivate as part an educational program.Įndeavouris landing one dayearlier than planned due to measures taken late last week to ensure thatNASA's Mission Control operations in Houston, Texas were not interrupted by HurricaneDean. The sevenastronauts successfully repaired a broken ISS gyroscope, delivered more thantwo tons of cargo and installed a new spare parts platform along with an $11 millionstarboard-side girder at the orbital laboratory during their mission. and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dave Williams. Returningto Earth with Kelly are Endeavour pilot Charlie Hobaugh, teacher-turned-spaceflyerBarbara Morgan and her fellow mission specialists Tracy Caldwell, RickMastracchio, Alvin Drew, Jr. NASA islooking into possible fixes for the fuel tank foam that caused the damage,shuttle officials said Monday. The ding, he added, will likely have little impact inEndeavour's refurbishment for a planned February 2008 mission. Stich saidEndeavour and its crew are primed for today's landing, and reiterated that a small,deep gouge in the orbiter's underbelly will pose no risk to the spacecraftduring reentry. ![]()
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