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Shuttle Flight Readiness Review Still On Track For Feb 20
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 19, 2009 Space shuttle Discovery's Flight Readiness Review, or FRR, will be held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Feb. 20. A news conference following the meeting will be held to announce the STS-119 mission's official launch date. Technicians on Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A continue to process shuttle Discovery for liftoff, currently planned for no earlier than Feb. 27. At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, STS-119 Mission Specialists Richard Arnold and Joseph Acaba are in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, running through a bonus training session to brush up on procedures for the third spacewalk they'll perform at the International Space Station. Space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 crew is set to fly the S6 truss segment and install the final set of power-generating solar arrays to the International Space Station. The S6 truss, with its set of large U.S. solar arrays, will complete the backbone of the station and provide one-fourth of the total power needed to support a crew of six. The two solar array wings each have 115-foot-long arrays, for a total wing span of 240 feet. They will generate 66 kilowatts of electricity - enough to provide about 30 2,800-square-foot homes with power. Commander Lee Archambault will lead Discovery's crew of seven, along with Pilot Tony Antonelli, and Mission Specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata. Wakata will replace Expedition 18 Flight Engineer Sandra Magnus, who will return to Earth with the STS-119 crew. Wakata will serve as a flight engineer for Expeditions 18 and 19, and return to Earth with the STS-127 crew. Discovery's STS-119 mission to the International Space Station is targeted to lift off no earlier than Feb. 27. Related Links Mission Overview Shuttle at NASA Watch NASA TV via Space.TV Space Shuttle News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA again postpones Discovery launch
Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2009The US space agency NASA has again postponed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery, saying it will not occur before February 27. |
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