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Mission STS-119 starts

10-Mar-09

Since last Sunday, the astronauts of mission STS-129119 are in Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facilities. Finally, this new mission will begin in aproximately one day and five hours (we can have a look at the exact time in the Official Space Shuttle web page). Lift off will be taking place March 11 at 9:20 p.m. EDT [...]

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STS-119: Spacewalk rehearsal

28-Jan-09

I have just read this info in NASA STS-119 RSS:
STS-119 mission astronauts are rehearsing spacewalking techniques in the NBL (Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Suited astronauts in the NBL are not truly weightless because they still feel their weight while in the suit. Although the effects are unlike the conditions of [...]

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STS-119, next mission

16-Jan-09

STS-119 is the next Space Shuttle mission to be done. The STS-119 crew members are astronauts Lee Archambault, commander, and Tony Antonelli, pilot and mission specialists Joseph Acaba, John Phillips, Steve Swanson, Richard Arnold and Koichi Wakata.
The logo for this mission is this one:

This mission will last 14 days in space and its aim is [...]

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