Today at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-131 astronauts will conduct an integrated ascent simulation before participating in their preflight news conference, airing on NASA TV at 2 p.m. EST. Preflight briefings also will air throughout the day on NASA TV, available on the Web at: www.nasa.gov/ntv. Preparation of space shuttle Discovery continues on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where today technicians are getting ready to service the shuttle's hypergolic system.
NASA has exercised a $60 million, one-year extension option for a contract with Science Applications International Corporation of Houston to provide support to safety and mission assurance activities at the agency's Johnson Space Center.
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Preparations for STS-131, the next mission to the International Space Station, continue today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as technicians working on space shuttle Discovery at Launch Pad 39A calibrate the inertial measurement unit and test the camera located on the external fuel tank.At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson are rehearsing procedures for their first spacewalk of the mission in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab. The lab, which resembles a huge swimming pool, simulates as closely as possible on Earth the conditions the astronauts encounter working in the weightlessness of space.
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Early Friday afternoon, the STS-131 astronauts departed from the Shuttle Landing Facility runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, heading back to their home base at NASA's Johnson Space Center in T-38 jets. Earlier in the day, the crew members finished a week of prelaunch training that culminated at Launch Pad 39A as they climbed aboard space shuttle Discovery for a full-dress launch rehearsal, known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The exercise gave the crew, launch team and technicians an opportunity to walk through all the steps leading up to the launch.Discovery's launch on its mission to the International Space Station is targeted for April 5.
This morning at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-131 astronauts' week of prelaunch training culminated at Launch Pad 39A as they climbed aboard space shuttle Discovery for a full-dress launch rehearsal, known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The exercise gave the crew, launch team and technicians an opportunity to walk through all the steps leading up to the launch.The astronauts are set to depart from Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility runway at 1:30 p.m. EST, flying T-38 jets back to their home base at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
This morning at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-131 astronauts' week of prelaunch training culminates at Launch Pad 39A as they climb aboard space shuttle Discovery for a full-dress launch rehearsal, known as the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The exercise gives the crew, launch team and technicians an opportunity to walk through all the steps leading up to the launch.
NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W., in Washington.
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