Space Shuttle Discovery’s next mission is scheduled for a May 31st launch. The STS-124 mission is the second of three flights to deliver components of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station.
With the increased pace of the shuttle program, it’s harder to keep up with their daily activities as it’s crews gear up to complete missions before the shuttle fleet is retired in 2010. However, Space Shuttle News can be found at nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/
NASA News:
The crew of the International Space Station will take part in a news conference on Tuesday April 15th at 10:00 am, CDT. The 30-minute conference will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
Members of the 17th crew of the station, Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, docked their Soyuz spacecraft to the station early Thursday. With them is South Korean spaceflight participant So-yeon Yi, who will stay on the complex for nine days under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
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