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President Bush had set a goal to retire the space shuttle in 2010 and start a new venture to go to the moon again with a program called Orion. STS-134 is the last scheduled space shuttle mission according to Bush's shuttle retirement initiative. A group of folks in the NASA community were tasked to develop a rendezvous system for the Orion project to allow for a new vehicle to dock with the space station as a test for the next moon mission. This system called STORRM (Sensor Test for Orion Rel-Nav Rendezvous Mission) is to be tested during the STS-134 space shuttle flight now scheduled for mid-2011. I had written a back end piece of software to provide the primary STORRM application with telemetry data during rendezvous operations. The hardware for STORRM is being added to the space shuttle Endeavor this week and I've been asked to support a test of the system once the hardware installation is complete. The tests were successful. I spent my time this week supporting the test and also doing some sight seeing around the Kennedy Space Center area while I was here.
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