Historic view of ISS after docking of Discovery, with ATV, HTV, Progress and 2 Soyuz all docked (by European Space Agency)
Space shuttle Discovery heads to space after lifting off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its final flight to the International Space Station on the STS-133 mission.
Face in Space! Haha this is great.. everyone should do this! Send your face into space.. it’s a little cheesy but I did it. =P Come join me…I got on Mission STS-134.
Just 5 Missions Left for NASA’s Space Shuttles
The end is beginning for NASA’s three aging space shuttles, with just five more missions on tap this year before the orbiter fleet retires in the fall. That is, unless NASA needs a few more months to fly those remaining missions or President Barack Obama chooses to extend the shuttle program to fill a looming gap in U.S. human spaceflight capability. Though the ultimate path forward for NASA has not yet been decided, the space agency is at a turning point after nearly 29 years of shuttle flight.
The very last space shuttle flight, the STS-133 mission of the shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station, is scheduled for September 2010. The launch will be the 134th shuttle voyage since the fleet’s debut in 1981.







