The crew of Space Shuttle Discovery have said goodbye to the International Space Station. The STS-131 mission draws to a close as Discovery makes her way back home, with over three tons of used equipment from the space station. The space shuttle is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday morning.
Only three more shuttle missions remain in the space program. U.S. astronauts will then be riding with the Russian cosmonauts to get back and forth from the International Space Station. Let’s just hope private aerospace engineers and companies will be able to carry NASA’s space program forward, since the administration won’t.
Source: NASA TV