The space shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station this morning and began heading back to Earth. It’s scheduled to land on April 19.
The shuttle will begin its descent into Earth’s atmosphere at 7:43 a.m. New York time on Monday, with a scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 8:21 a.m., NASA said in a statement.
Discovery took off April 5 with six astronauts aboard for a 14-day mission. They delivered a logistics module filled with equipment to be used for science experiments aboard the space station.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has planned three more shuttle flights before the program, which started in 1981, is shut down. Atlantis is slated to take off on its last journey on May 14; Endeavour is set for its final launch on July 29; and Discovery is to make its last trip in September.
In February, President Barack Obama announced a plan to end NASA’s Constellation program to develop rockets and vessels for a return to the moon and instead focus on technology development and spurring private efforts to build spacecraft.
Source :: businessweek.com
The shuttle will begin its descent into Earth’s atmosphere at 7:43 a.m. New York time on Monday, with a scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 8:21 a.m., NASA said in a statement.
Discovery took off April 5 with six astronauts aboard for a 14-day mission. They delivered a logistics module filled with equipment to be used for science experiments aboard the space station.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has planned three more shuttle flights before the program, which started in 1981, is shut down. Atlantis is slated to take off on its last journey on May 14; Endeavour is set for its final launch on July 29; and Discovery is to make its last trip in September.
In February, President Barack Obama announced a plan to end NASA’s Constellation program to develop rockets and vessels for a return to the moon and instead focus on technology development and spurring private efforts to build spacecraft.
Source :: businessweek.com
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