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STS-124 || Space Shuttle Discovery |
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Written by Administrator on
Wednesday, 21 May 2008
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 Discovery departs ISS, lands safely
20 July 2008 - Space shuttle landing(From June 14, 2008) Following a successful and busy construction mission to the International Space Station, the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery is now back on terra firma. The 15-day flight to the ISS began on May 31, and involved the installation of the station’s largest module, as well as a much-needed toilet repair that has made life in orbit a little easier.
|  Discovery crew installs new toilet, lab module, on ISS
05 June 2008 - On Monday the space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station, carrying with it a massive new Japanese lab, a new crewmember, and a replacement toilet pump. The two orbital craft met 335 km over the Pacific Ocean, where Discovery performed a slow back flip so that the ISS crew could take hundreds of detailed photos of the shuttle’s heat tiled belly for transmission back to the surface for analysis.
|  Discovery blasts off with Buzz Lightyear aboard
31 May 2008 - To infinity and beyond, indeed. As part of a partnership between Disney and NASA, a 12-inch figure of Buzz Lightyear of Toy Story fame signed up as an eighth astronaut aboard Discovery, seeking to expand and invigorate childhood space, science, and math education. Back in the cargo hold of Discovery was the Japanese Experiment Module of JAXA’s Kibo Laboratory - this massive module is the size of a touring bus and fills the entire cargo hold of the space shuttle.
|  Discovery to lift off on May 31
21 May 2008 - Standing by on the Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A is NASA’s space shuttle Discovery, prepped to launch on a construction mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle is scheduled to launch on May 31st at 5:02 PM EDT, carrying the second of three segments of JAXA’s Kibo Laboratory to the ISS.
|  Discovery rolls out to launch pad
08 May 2008 - Mounted onto a massive orange external fuel tank and two large solid-fuel rocket boosters, the space shuttle Discovery this week crawled to the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A. The shuttle is scheduled to launch May 31st on a construction mission to the International Space Station. Commanded by veteran NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, Discovery will be carrying the remaining third portion of JAXA’s Kibo Laboratory on a two-week mission.
|  Discovery fuel tank delay postpones launch to May 31
04 April 2008 - Nasty weather delayed the delivery of the external fuel tank for the space shuttle Discovery a few weeks back. Since the tanks are delivered by barge from New Orleans to Cape Canaveral, severe storms forced the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility where the tanks are built to hold back delivery for nearly a week. The delay was not expected to push back the launch of Discovery early next month, but after NASA managers crunched the numbers, they realized that they would have to postpone the launch one week. The week delay put the launch on the Memorial Day weekend, so in order to give NASA's thousands of workers the weekend off in what is due to be a busy launch year, the launch was delayed to Saturday, May 31st.
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