Buljit
The launch has been postponed yet again.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/29/shuttle.endeavor/index.html
Ram da
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Buljit Buragohain wrote:
> Fincke on yet another space mission
> Staff Reporter
> GUWAHATI,
> April 29 – U S astronaut Colonel E. Michael Fincke, popularly known as
> Mike Fincke, the NASA Astronaut, is on his third sojourn to outer space.
> The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to be launched to the
> International Space Station (ISS) from the Kennedy Space Center in
> Florida this night. The mission named STS-134 will have a six-member
> crew and Mike is the Mission Specialist No.1 in this mission, said a
> press release of the Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS) here
> today.Mike is a
> household name in Assam and happens to be a son-in-law of the State by
> virtue of his marriage to an Assamese-origin girl Renita Saikia, who is
> also a NASA engineer. Colonel
> Finke will sit up on the flight deck in the cockpit and help the
> launching and landing of this complex aerospace vehicle, the space
> shuttle. He along with two other astronauts will perform four
> spacewalks. During the 14-day mission, Endeavour and its crew will
> deliver the Express Logistics Carrier-3, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2
> (AMS), a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for the
> Dextre robotic helper to the ISS. It’s a very important mission in terms
> of science. The AMS is going to be installed on the outside of the
> International Space Station and collect some amazing data and detect
> some things that will help to understand the universe a lot better. Mike
> had been to the outer space twice before – in 2004 and 2008-9 and
> stayed there for a year. Mike
> Fincke, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alumni, had come
> to the NE region of India in September 2009 and interacted with the
> students in Guwahati and Shillong, which was organized by the FASS. It
> had also organized a direct talk between Mike Fincke, while he was in
> Outer Space, and the students of four educational institutions of
> Dibrugarh, Guwahati, Imphal and Shillong in 2008-09.The
> International Space Station (ISS) is the largest and most complex
> international scientific project in history. The ISS is a research
> facility in outer space and orbits at an altitude of approximately 350
> km above the surface of the Earth, and travels at an average speed of
> 27,700 kilometres per hour, completing 15.7 orbits per day, making
> roughly one orbit every 90 minutes and it passes over 90 per cent of the
> world’s surface. The ISS’s length and width is about the size of a
> football field. The International Space Station marked its 10th
> anniversary of continuous human occupation on November 2, 2010. The ISS
> can accommodate six persons and it is larger than a conventional
> five-bedroom house, and has two bathrooms, a gymnasium and research
> laboratories. FASS
> wishes Mike Fincke a very successful voyage during his third visit to
> the ISS. It will invite him again to Assam to interact with the students
> and teachers of the North East. Mike Fincke’s wife Renita and their
> three children Chandra, Tarali and Surya and his in-laws Rupesh and
> Probha Saikia have already arrived in Florida for the launching of the
> Space Shuttle, said the FASS in its press release signed by its
> secretary general Bidyananda Barkakoty.
>
> ( The Assam Tribune , 30.04.2011)
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