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By Paul Sisco
Washington, D.C.
07 June 2007
 


The first of four shuttle missions to the International Space Station this year is set for late Friday.


 



Space Shuttle Atlantis


Space shuttle Atlantis




The shuttle Atlantis is on the launch pad and everything looks good for Friday's scheduled evening liftoff.  On Tuesday, NASA Test Director Steve Payne briefed reporters at the Kennedy Space Center.


"All our systems right now are in great shape,” Payne reports.  “We are tracking no constraints 1 that are show stoppers, teams are ready and everyone's eager to launch."


Atlantis was scheduled to fly in mid-March, but a freak hailstorm left thousands of pits on the external fuel tank delaying that space flight.


NASA weather officer Kathy Winter says there is a 30 percent chance weather could interfere 2 with this week's launch.  "For the coast here the weather looks reasonably promising 3 for launch,” Winter says.  “We do expect to see some afternoon thunderstorms in the area on launch day, but by launch time all that weather should move inland with the sea breeze."


Commander Rick Sturckow and rest of his crew arrived at the NASA space center in Florida on Monday.  "If you can just get some weather for us like this for Friday evening we'll really appreciate that too,” Sturckow commented.  “The crew is very excited to be here in Florida. We spent a long time training for this mission. We just flew by the launch pad 39 Alfa. It looks great."


This is scheduled as an 11-day mission.  The seven spacemen plan to install a third pair of solar wings and another large module 4 to the International Space Station.


There will be three, possibly four space walks, and astronaut Sunita  'Suni' Williams will be replaced as a crew member on the station, by flight engineer Clayton Anderson.  This is the 21st NASA mission to the International Space Station.  Three more are scheduled for this year.
 



强制( constraint的名词复数 ); 限制; 约束
  • Data and constraints can easily be changed to test theories. 信息库中的数据和限制条件可以轻易地改变以检验假设。 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
  • What are the constraints that each of these imply for any design? 这每种产品的要求和约束对于设计意味着什么? 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
v.(in)干涉,干预;(with)妨碍,打扰
  • If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话,可能弊多利少。
  • When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件,棘手的事情就来了。
adj.有希望的,有前途的
  • The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。
  • We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。
n.组件,模块,模件;(航天器的)舱
  • The centre module displays traffic guidance information.中央模块显示交通引导信息。
  • Two large tanks in the service module held liquid oxygen.服务舱的两个大气瓶中装有液态氧。
学英语单词
acclivi-tous
Acer platanoides
additional paragraph in auditor's report
air-brake dynamometer
Ammate
anchorable
Andreyevskiy
apertura
ashtanga
astatic
auriculo-ventricular
bequeathest
bicornuta
biotransfer
Blenheim Orange
calculus of lower urinary tract
callionymus variegatus
charge-sheet
chernyy otrog
collcynth
comma movable
community-gardening
contagious polyarthritis
corocalene
counter clockwise (ccw)
counterefforts
crowflower
de-esterification
deficit covering bonds
desalin(iz)ation
dichlorbenil
ecureuils
entero-chromaffin cell
explosive pressure
financial environment
fluxgate magnetometer
Fogg Art Museum
fulguration current
Gastrocybe lateritia
generator field control
get the memo
gibelike
graphics adapter
grating of gears
gunnery practice
hematopoietic system
high-voltage switch
hylozoism
hypersonic glider
ideal imperfect-crystal
ill-natured
illegal condemnation
intergroup behavior
klier
koe-san (goesan)
komun-som (huk-to )
lathe tool bit
lending agreement
like kings
lindahl taxes
main longitudinal frame
microflake tobacco sbeet
micropegmatitic structure
ministry for industry and trade
minor orders
momchaunce
National city Bank of New York
neutron activity
normalization routine
oceanic affinity
oxyphosphate of copper cement
palm-presser
parameter plane method
pasteurized lactic beverage
peneite
phase diagram of reservoir hydrocarbon
photoactivity detector
playdoh
plug for seal
printergram
refuse incinerator
repairable material
rhizocephalous
rusticalness
science teachers
seeabler
seeing about
ship technology
siccitate
Sisymbrium officinale
snakeskin glaze
spreader-ditcher
stand point
standing-wave method
stroke ... down
stuffing gland
truncheoning
trustor
ursaenate
VREPAIR
wanderstars