While we have been enjoying our egg nog the STS-117 teams have been getting Atlantis ready for her 28th flight in March. The external tank arrived at Kennedy Space Center from the Michoud Assembly Facility on Friday and was quickly lifted and secured in the Vehicle Assembly Building to be stacked with the Solid Rocket Boosters. Atlantis is currently in the Orbiter Processing Facility and will make it’s way to the VAB soon to be mated with the ET/SRB.
The highlights of the STS-117 mission are delivering and installing the S3/S4 starboard truss segment and a third set of solar arrays to the International Space Station.
I hope everyone had a great holiday!
I noticed Landry’s finally put up the Downtown Disney Marketplace concept art for their new T-REX restuarant coming in 2008.
Disney has gotten a lot of buzz as a result of some financial journals picking up the story of a revamped Disney.com being announced next week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It’s peppered with buzz-words like MySpace and YouTube, and I am interested to see if it gets any share volume reaction when the market opens tommorow. I’ve been especially dying to figure out how to get to CES this year since I heard Bob Iger was delivering a Day 1 keynote. Alas the finances didn’t work out and I’ll have to settle for CNET’s usually excellent reporting here at home. Here’s hoping for some nice digital distribution news… Iger’s keynote coincides with Steve Jobs’ keynote up in San Francisco on Tuesday, though I doubt Jobs will let Iger pre-announce anything on Monday. However, with The Walt Disney Company approaching 1 million movie downloads on the iTunes store in less than 4 months, I’m sure Iger wants an “iTV” device in every home as much as we do.