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NASA STS-131 given Go to Launch

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http://www.itwire.com – NASA managers have given space shuttle Discovery a “GO” to launch on April 5, 2010, for its STS-131 mission to the International Space Station.   (IT news)

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The crew of the NASA STS-131 mission has landed its space shuttle Discovery successfully and safety at the Kennedy Space Center, with the STS-132 crew preparing its mission of the space shuttle Atlantic, which already sits on its KSC launch pad 39A.  

The countdown for the space shuttle Discovery and its STS-131 crew began at 3 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time at the Kennedy Space Center for its April 5, 2010 launch to the International Space Station.  

NASA decided to delay the launch of the space shuttle Discovery on its STS-133 mission for at least one day because of two just discovered leaks in the orbital maneuvering system of the shuttle. An earlier one had just been patched up.  

NASA has decided  the space shuttle Discovery cannot launch any earlier than December 17, 2010, and there is a likely chance that it won’t liftoff before February 2011.

Do you want to peek in on the International Space Station crewmembers? Or maybe you would like to check in on the flight controllers at NASA's Mission Control Center at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas? Well, now you can with new apps from NASA.

{loadposition william08}The new Space Station Live! website and ISSLive!

NASA just released a photograph taken by a crew member of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft as it backed away from the International Space Station while the space shuttle Endeavour was docked to it.

NASA gave the space shuttle Endeavour and its STS-134 crew the “go for launch” on the morning of Monday, May 16, 2011. The 25th mission of Endeavour will be its last, and the next-to-last mission for the American space shuttle fleet.

The U.S. space agency NASA has officially set the launch date for the final space shuttle mission, STS-135, by the space shuttle Atlantis: The end of an era, but hopefully also the start of a new one.

If you are lucky enough to be in Florida to see the STS-131 launch on April, 5, 2010, you will also be able to see the International Space Station fly over just before the space shuttle Discovery lifts off. And, the Moon will be in the picture, too!