, Kim Shiflett, NASA, via APThe crew of space shuttle endeavour's Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday. Left: Michael Fink, Andrew j. Feustel, Greg Johnson, Mark Kelly, Roberto Vittori and Greg Chamitoff.
From Kim Shiflett, NASA, via APThe crew of space shuttle endeavour's Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday. Left: Michael Fink, Andrew j. Feustel, Greg Johnson, Mark Kelly, Roberto Vittori and Greg Chamitoff.
"I'm working on the space shuttle for 24 years, more than half of my life so I'm going to miss it," said astronaut Rick Mastracchio, who flew three space shuttle missions and was composed of approximately 40 days in space, including six outputs. Efforts will start at 3: 47 pm today from the Kennedy Space Center. NASA began fueling Shuttle, external fuel tank at 6: 22 am expert missions, monitoring heavy weather in the South, predicted 70 percent chance of launch-friendly environment, despite the threat of thunderstorms along the coast of Florida and a small brush fire smoldered around 3 miles from the launch site for NASA test Director Jeff Spaulding saidthat 45 000 people he expected to see from Kennedy Space Center, and 700 000 spectators in Brevard County. President Obama and his family will attend the launch, along with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., whose husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, Mission teams and who was shot in the head, "" 8. "This historic launch, Spaulding said. The shuttle program ends on 28 June with the launch of Atlantis, NASA has awarded seed capital. several companies to develop commercial rockets to transport goods and people into space. It is expected that five to seven years transportation, leaving a gap for astronauts United States until the commercial vehicles ready for human crew, NASA astronauts will rely on the Russian Soyuz capsules to get to and from the International Space Station Next week, Mastracchio, who was studying English for several yearsstarts preparations for his next mission: six-month stay aboard the international space station in 2013. It launches from Kazakhstan on a Soyuz. "For me, frustration is that people run into space is what we used to do," said astronaut Stan love, who joined the space programme in 1998 and 24 missions flew aboard Atlantis to the international space station. Love performed two spacewalks to help attach the Columbus laboratory module to the station by the European Space Agency. Nevertheless, he said he is excited about the future of space program. It will look at news from efforts in the payload, the Alpha magnetic spectrometer 2, which would collect and analyse of subatomic particles. "This can tell us something about the origin of the universe, "love said. "Reality is ten times cooler than imagination." for more information about Reprint permissions, visit our FAQ &. Report corrections and clarifications, contact standards editor Brent Jones. For consideration of publication in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and State to check. To view our corrections, go to corrections usatoday.com. We have updated the guidelines talk. Changes include a brief overview of the approval process and explains how to use the button "report abuse". For More Information.
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