Last year, I published a post called the Final Five Shuttle Missions, encompassing all the flights that were scheduled for 2010 and 2011. Now that STS-130, 131 and 132 are behind us, we were down to two!
Yesterday, however... NASA updated the official Launch Calendar to show another flight! Atlantis has been re-added to the fleet. So, I'm amending my list to the final three now... and will keep this updated throughout the year once again. Interestingly, because of all the delays and changes for these flights, they are back in numerical order once again.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
STS-133 scheduled for launch at 4:50 p.m. EST
Mission: The last flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. An all-veteran, all-American crew will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier, a Permanent Multi-Purpose Module, Robonaut2, and a SpaceX DragonEye sensor... and two small Lego space shuttles.
On this flight, the mission patch was amended to include Steve Bowen, who replaced astronaut Tim Kopra, recently injured in a bicycling accident.
Monday, May 16, 2011
STS-134 scheduled for launch at 8:56 a.m. EDT
Mission: The last flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour will deliver a the GLACIER Freeze Module, a Logistics Carrier, a high-pressure gas tank, micro-meteoroid debris shields, and an Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the ISS. One spacewalk is planned to mount the AMS to the integrated truss structure.
Friday, July 8, 2011
STS-135 scheduled for launch at 11:26 a.m. EDT
Mission: The last flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis is the final mission of the Shuttle program, which began service in 1981. She will deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier. No crew has yet been selected and EVA activity has yet to be announced. Stay tuned!
This final mission will mark the 135th flight of the Space Shuttle Orbiter, the 37th Shuttle trip to the ISS, and the 166th American manned launch.
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