Which date the Space shuttle Discovery is to return to earth?”
NASA’s Discovery space shuttle was launched on Monday for a scheduled 13-day mission, one of the last remaining four flights for the ageing shuttle fleet. Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6.21 am with seven astronauts on board. The shuttle will be bringing them to the International Space Station (ISS). After Monday, the spectacle of a huge shuttle rocketing into the sky will happen only three more times. The US space agency NASA’s goal is to retire the shuttles by September, but routine delays due to weather and technical problems could put the final flight into early 2011. Have we stepped into a devastating new geological time? Discovery’s scheduled 13-day mission offers one more chance for the orbiter to prove its worth as the work-horse of the ISS. The shuttle will carry more than 12 tonnes of equipment. Because much of the load is destined for research, NASA decided to dub the mission “Experiment Express”. NASA will load up its Italian-built Leonardo container wit
Washington: NASA’s Discovery space shuttle was launched on Monday for a scheduled 13-day mission, one of the last remaining four flights for the ageing shuttle fleet. Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6.21 am with seven astronauts on board. The shuttle will be bringing them to the International Space Station (ISS). After Monday, the spectacle of a huge shuttle rocketing into the sky will happen only three more times. The US space agency NASA’s goal is to retire the shuttles by September, but routine delays due to weather and technical problems could put the final flight into early 2011. Have we stepped into a devastating new geological time? Discovery’s scheduled 13-day mission offers one more chance for the orbiter to prove its worth as the work-horse of the ISS. The shuttle will carry more than 12 tonnes of equipment. Because much of the load is destined for research, NASA decided to dub the mission “Experiment Express”. NASA will load up its Italian-built Leonardo c
