Service Mission 3B

  • David J. Shayler
  • David M. Harland
Part of the Springer Praxis Books book series (PRAXIS)

Abstract

When the crew of STS-103 returned home shortly after Christmas 1999 the planning for the “second half” of the third Hubble service mission was well advanced. It would attempt to complete what had originally been assigned to SM-3. The intention was that when Columbia, the oldest of the shuttle orbiters, returned from its upgrade period in California, it would fly the SM-3B mission prior to another solo research payload and possibly some post-assembly missions to the ISS. But suddenly there were doubts that Columbia would remain in service beyond 2002.

Keywords

Solar Array Virtual Reality Training Flight Crew Shuttle Mission Space Note 
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Copyright information

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

Authors and Affiliations

  • David J. Shayler
    • 1
  • David M. Harland
    • 2
  1. 1.Astro Info Service Ltd.HalesowenUK
  2. 2.GlasgowUK

Personalised recommendations