Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Shuttle Landing

MSNBC.
Dsicovery lands in Florida after a "nearly flawless" mission. NASA intends 2 more missions this year. Atlantis is already prepping, due to fly next month to resume contruction of the ISS.

"The shuttle Atlantis is already being prepared for next month's mission, which involves the installation of a truss segment and additional power-generating solar arrays on the international space station. And in the next week, NASA will start getting Discovery back in shape for its own next mission in mid-December. "

There are also plans in the works for a Hubble maintenance mission, which is pretty cool.

"A successful end to Discovery's mission not only opens the way for the resumption of space station construction, but also makes a final mission to the Hubble Space Telescope more likely. Informally, NASA already has begun planning for such a servicing mission in 2008"

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