William Atkins
Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:59
Science -
Space
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The space shuttle Endeavour is being prepared for its next-to-last mission into space. Only four other NASA missions of its Space Shuttle fleet remain in the Space Transportation System (STS) program—which is scheduled to end in September 2010.
The NASA mission,
STS-130, is the 130th mission of the Space Transportation System (STS) program, which is commonly called the Space Shuttle program.
The mission of STS-130,
Endeavour's 24th mission into space, is scheduled to launch at 4:39 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on February 7, 2010.
It is informally called the
“Room with a View” mission.
The eleven-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is ISS assembly flight 20A.
It will deliver Node 3 (
Tranquility module) and the large seven-windowed Cupola module & robotics workstation to the orbiting space structure.
The Cupola will be attached to the side of the
Tranquility module so astronauts will have access to a
“Room with a View.”
The STS-130 astronaut team is: commander George Zamka, pilot Terry Virts, and mission specialists Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Kathryn Hire, and Stephen Robinson.
The STS-130 mission, the 130th mission of the space shuttle fleet and the 32nd space shuttle mission to the ISS, is highlighted on the NASA website “
STS-130 Mission Information.”
For additional information, check out the Channel 13 News article “
Endeavour’s Mission in Depth.”
Page two continues with the STS-131 mission.
