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SHUTTLE DISCOVERY LAUNCH COUNTDOWN BEGINS - The official countdown has begun for Monday's scheduled launch of NASA's space shuttle Discovery. The shuttle craft is set to liftoff Monday at 6:21 a.m. EDT on from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During its 13 days in space, Discovery's seven-member crew, including three women, will deliver some 17,000 pounds of supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. "We're eager to get Discovery flying on Monday morning," NASA Test Director Steve Payne said today, adding that launch preparations are so far going as planned.    More
(Source: Computerworld - Apr 3)


SOYUZ CREW TRANSPORT CAPSULE HEADS FOR SPACE STATION SOYUZ CREW TRANSPORT CAPSULE HEADS FOR SPACE STATION - A Russian Soyuz spacecraft roared to life and rocketed away from its launching pad in Kazakhstan early Friday, carrying two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on a two-day flight to the International Space Station. Soyuz TMA-18 commander Alexander Skvortsov, flight engineer Mikhail Kornienko and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a shuttle veteran with a doctorate in chemistry, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 12:04 a.m. EDT Friday.    More
(Source: Space Flight Now - Apr 2)


SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TO LAUNCH NEXT MONDAY, APRIL 5TH SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TO LAUNCH NEXT MONDAY, APRIL 5TH - Space Shuttle Discovery has been cleared for flight and will be launching on Monday, April 5th at 6:21 a.m. After an all-day Flight Readiness Review meeting NASA managers gave the shuttle a 'go' for launch. The managers determined that there were no issues that were left unresolved, and nothing was preventing the STS-131 crew and Discovery from being able to fly safely.    More
(Source: Examiner.com - Apr 2)


DISCOVERY DUE TO LAUNCH ON APRIL 5 DISCOVERY DUE TO LAUNCH ON APRIL 5 - The fourth-to-last Space Shuttle launch has been scheduled by NASA for April 5. Discovery will be on a 13 day mission to the space station, where it will bring various supplies and swap out some station hardware. Discovery will be using the Leonardo multi-purpose logistics module to carry those supplies. The launch is planned for 06:21 EDT (10:21 GMT), so the sky will still be relatively dark but getting lighter (sunrise is a little after 07:00). It should be very pretty!    More
(Source: Discover Magazine - Mar 30)


EXPEDITION 23 PREPARING FOR NEW CREW MEMBERS, SHUTTLE VISITORS EXPEDITION 23 PREPARING FOR NEW CREW MEMBERS, SHUTTLE VISITORS - The three-member Expedition 23 crew will expand to six on April 4 when Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko dock to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft. On April 7, space shuttle Discovery with the seven-member STS-131 crew will visit the orbiting laboratory and deliver science racks and ammonia tanks.    More
(Source: Space Fellowship - Mar 29)


ECHOSTAR XIV LAUNCHED ON COMMERCIAL ECHOSTAR XIV LAUNCHED ON COMMERCIAL - A commercial Proton orbited the heaviest satellite ever to fly on the Russian launch vehicle March 21, placing the 6.3-metric-ton EchoStar XIV Ku-band satellite in its geosynchronous transfer orbit for the DISH Network. The launch vehicle’s Breeze M upper stage released the spacecraft after a nine-hour, 10-minute mission. Liftoff from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan came at 2:27 p.m. EDT.    More
(Source: Aviation Week - Mar 25)


GOES-P RENAMED GOES-15. THE SATELLITE IS NOW IN ITS PROPER ORBIT GOES-P RENAMED GOES-15. THE SATELLITE IS NOW IN ITS PROPER ORBIT - The latest addition to the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) constellation, GOES-P has now achieved its final storage orbit, some 12 days after its flawless launch. According to experts at NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the new spacecraft has now been renamed GOES-15, and it has just finished being set up for its future mission. At this point, no plans are in place to actually put the new instrument to work.    More
(Source: SoftPedia - Mar 21)


SECRET MINI SPACE SHUTTLE COULD LAUNCH APRIL 19 SECRET MINI SPACE SHUTTLE COULD LAUNCH APRIL 19 - It's cute. It's little. It's also top secret. The X-37B orbital test vehicle is at Cape Canaveral in Florida, and the word is that it will be launched on board an Atlas V rocket on Monday April 19, 2010 at around 10 pm EDT. Other than that, the Air Force isn't saying much about this mini-space shuttle look-alike. The reusable unmanned vehicle is capable of staying in orbit for 270 days, but the mission duration hasn't been announced. Additionally, the ship has a payload bay for experiments and deployable satellites, but no word if any payloads will be included on the inaugural flight of this mini space plane.    More
(Source: Universe Today - Mar 20)


NASA AIMS FOR APRIL 5 SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY LAUNCH NASA AIMS FOR APRIL 5 SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY LAUNCH - NASA will run tests later this week to determine whether its safe to fly shuttle Discovery despite valve trouble that cropped up over the weekend during a critical propellant-loading operation at Kennedy Space Center. The tests, if successful, could provide managers with the data required to prove Discovery could launch as scheduled on April 5 and still fly its International Space Station outfitting mission safely.    More
(Source: USA Today - Mar 17)


NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE CREW RUNS NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE CREW RUNS - The Discovery astronauts donned their bright orange spacesuits and went to the launch pad Friday to board the space shuttle for a countdown dress rehearsal and emergency evacuation training. Commander Alan Poindexter, pilot Jim Dutton, spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson, and mission specialists Dotty Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency conducted the simulation in preparation for the April 5 launch to the International Space Station.    More
(Source: Space Flight Now - Mar 8)

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