The most-used vehicle in NASA’s space shuttle fleet is about to lift off on its final scheduled voyage. The STS-133 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on space shuttle Discovery is now scheduled to begin November 5 with a 3:04 P.M. (Eastern Daylight Time) launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It is the last mission on the calendar for Discovery before the shuttle program is phased out in 2011. [More]













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