Space shuttle Discovery

Perfect landing.

Couldn't be any better! Its neat to watch it live there!

Perfect landing.

NASA breathes a sigh of relief.
stephen.

Perfect Landing. Great touchdown.

Now hopefully Atlantis will be given the go ahead for September 22!

Spaceboy

is the next Expedition crew going up on Atlantis or are they sticking with using the Soyuz (which I think is scheduled for Oct. 1st)? I think they might be bringing an ESA astronaut up on the Shuttle.

there's lots of conflicting info even on Nasa's own sites but that is to be expected due to uncertainty with the Shuttle fleet at the moment.

looks like ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV Jules Verne) is finally going to fly and is pencilled in for 2006.

John

My understanding is that all further STS flights are scrubbed, until they can stop the foam coming off the tanks at launch. Until then, no more flights.

To be honest, if that was the last mission that ended today, I'd not be surprised...

I saw an interview this afternoon where it was said that they are committed contractually to a further 15 flights to the ISS and the intention, unless congress can rapidly change some law or other, is to honour the flights, then look towards manned flights to the moon and scrap the shuttle. It appears that everything apart from take off is safe, but they need to work on safer lift-off. The Russians version of Shuttle is apparantly safer as it has escape plans and facilities for lift-off, but shuttle doesn't.
Bill H.