NASA is now targeting March 2006 for the next Space Shuttle
mission, STS-121. This will be the second test flight to the
International Space Station in the Shuttle Return to Flight
series.
ANN Will Be There To Cover The Eevent... In REALTIME
XCOR Aerospace, Inc. has announced that the company will conduct
multiple flight tests of the EZ-Rocket during the weekend of
October 6-9 at the inaugural Countdown to the X PRIZE CUP in New
Mexico.
By Senior Correspondent Kevin R.C. O'Brien
On Friday, the government's traditional day for slipping bad
news to the weekend-bound public, NASA pulled the plug on STS-121's
scheduled launch date of 22 September and allowed that, perhaps, a
November launch would go on as scheduled. Perhaps not.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched on Aug. 12, has
completed one of the first tasks of its seven-month cruise to Mars,
a calibration activity for the spacecraft's Mars Color Imager
instrument.
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