NASA managers met Friday and decided to continue processing the shuttle Endeavour for launch June 13 on a five-spacewalk space station assembly mission while continuing an analysis of a short circuit that knocked an avionics unit off line during the shuttle Atlantis’ liftoff May 11.
Space Shuttle OV-104 Atlantis was launched from pad 39A on May 11 at Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-125, Hubble Servicing Mission SM-4.
Opinion: On the 28th October, 1971, the United Kingdom launched its first – and only – satellite to be carried into orbit by a launch vehicle also designed and built in the UK. The Black Arrow launcher placed the Prospero satellite in low earth orbit some three months after the project had been cancelled by the government.
Atlantis astronauts hope to land Saturday to cap their Hubble repair mission.
The European Space Agency will present four new astronauts on Wednesday, its first new recruits since 1992.
Seven astronauts blasted off on the space shuttle Atlantis on Monday for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope ? an extraordinarily ambitious mission that NASA hopes will lift the celebrated observatory to new scientific heights.
An astronaut from Michigan is one of the people on board a space flight to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
by Launchspace Staff Bethesda, MD (SPX) May 11. 2009 Just last week the Obama Administration announced an independent review of NASA’s human space flight plans.
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