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Science 10 shuttle missions left: NASA sets launch dates for 2009 & 2010 flights
Science 10 shuttle missions left: NASA sets launch dates for 2009 & 2010 flights | 10 shuttle missions left: NASA sets launch dates for 2009 & 2010 flights |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Wednesday, 09 July 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 SHUTTLE FLIGHTS IN 2010 “Atlantis begins its 32nd mission as the first flight in 2010, carrying a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module filled with science racks that will be transferred to laboratories of the station. The 11-day mission will include at least three spacewalks to attach a spare ammonia tank assembly outside the station and return a European experiment that has been outside the Columbus module. It will be the 33rd shuttle mission to the station. The crew has yet to be named.” April 8: space shuttle Discovery (STS-132 / ULF-4) “Discovery’s 38th mission will carry an integrated cargo carrier to deliver maintenance and assembly hardware, including spare parts for space station systems. In addition, the second in a series of new pressurized components for Russia, a Mini Research Module, will be permanently attached to the bottom port of the Zarya module. The Russian module also will carry U.S. pressurized cargo. The first Russian Mini Research Module to go to the station is scheduled to launch on a Russian rocket in the summer of 2009.” “Additionally, at least three spacewalks are planned to stage spare components outside the station, including six spare batteries, a boom assembly for the Ku-band antenna and spares for the Canadian Dextre robotic arm extension. A radiator, airlock and European robotic arm for the Russian Multi-purpose Laboratory Module also are payloads on the flight. The laboratory module is scheduled for launch on a Russian rocket in 2011. The mission marks the 34th mission to the station. The STS-132 crew has yet to be named.” May 31: space shuttle Endeavour (STS-133 / ULF-5) “Endeavour’s 25th mission will carry critical spare components that will be placed on the outside of the station. Those will include two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank, additional spare parts for Dextre and micrometeoroid debris shields. At least three spacewalks are planned to be carried out by the crew, which has yet to be named. The 15-day mission will be the 35th to the station.” For the NASA space shuttle launch manifest, visit International Space Station: Consolidated Launch Manifest . In addition, the U.S. House of Representatives has allocated money for one additional space shuttle flight to allow a previously canceled major International Space Station component to be flown: the European CERN Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics experiment that will be mounted outside of the space station so that it can search for various types of unusual matter by measuring cosmic rays. If flown in the fall of 2010, the mission will be designated STS-134 and probably flown by space shuttle Discovery.
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