Space Shuttle Launch this Saturday

[john roe]

Space Shuttle Launch Atlantis this Sat Morning, 0220 for Perth and 0420 for East Coast..live on Nasa TV.

 

Date: May 14

 

Mission: STS-132

 

Launch Vehicle: Space Shuttle Atlantis

 

Launch Site: Kennedy Space Center - Launch Pad 39A

 

Launch Time: 2:20 p.m. EDT

 

Description: Space shuttle Atlantis 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.

 

 

[john roe]

Space junk found in shuttle's path

 

• From: AFP
   
   
  
• May 15, 2010 8:14AM
   
   
  

 

 

 

THE shuttle Atlantis was preparing to swerve past "a piece of debris" en route to the International Space Station after its liftoff, NASA said.

 

A NASA official said the debris, one of an estimated 13,000 pieces of space junk orbiting Earth, was possibly in the path of the shuttle, which blasted off with six astronauts hours earlier.

 

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/world/space-junk-found-in-shuttles-path/story-e6frg1p3-1225867090043