The first mission for 2007 is STS-117 scheduled on June 8th. The crew on the Space Shuttle Atlantis will deliver a second starboard truss segment and a third set of solar arrays and batteries to the International Space Station. This will be the 21st mission to the ISS.

For more information, see the NASA STS-117 page: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html.

The second Shuttle mission is STS-118 on August 9th. The Space Shuttle Endeavour crew will deliver the S5 Truss spacer structure. Teacher Barbara Morgan, an astronaut trained as an educator mission specialist. will be onboard.

The NASA-STS-118 Web page is: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/index.html.

The third STS mission is STS-120. Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to be launched on October 20th. It will deliver the U.S. Node 2 (Harmony). The crew will also relocate the Port 6 solar array truss already on the space station. See ITwire article “Student-named Harmony soon to become new module for Space Station” for additional information on Node 2.

The NASA-STS-120 mission highlights appear at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/index.html.

The fourth scheduled mission in 2007 is STS-122 on December 6th. Space Shuttle Atlantis will deliver the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Columbus European Laboratory Module.

The NASA-STS-122 mission appears at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts122/index.html.

In 2008, Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-123) is scheduled for launch on February 14, 2008, with the Japanese experiment logistics module. Then, Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) is targeted for launch on April 24, 2008, for delivery of the Japanese Kibo main science laboratory facility. The mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is also scheduled to be launched in late summer 2008.

The NASA Space Shuttle program is scheduled to end in 2010.

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