Look out space, shuttle Endeavor will be on its way!
Even though NASA started the year off behind schedule with shuttle Atlantis, everything appears to be going well for the planned Endeavour launch in early August. The August 7 launch will be the first Endeavour launch since NASA sent it into space in November 2002.
The crew's planned 14-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) includes the installation of a new truss segment, four scheduled spacewalks, gyroscope replacement, and several tasks that should help expand space education for those of us back on Earth.
Astronauts recently participated in a launch dress rehearsal that was successful - and now the seven astronauts started pre-launch drills.
This is the second of hopefully two more launches for 2007, which puts the U.S. space agency right on track to finish the ISS in 2010 - before the current generation of space shuttle retire.
You can expect to see shuttle Endeavour mentioned numerous times in future editions of DailyTech's International Space Updates. And for the small number of you who took the time to contact me about the ISS, let me apologize that we haven't published an International Space Update in a while - a new one will be published over the weekend.
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