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Shuttle Atlantis to become parts donor after 2008

NASA aims shuttle Atlantis would serve as a "parts donor" between 2008 and the shuttle fleet’s scheduled retirement in September 2010.

The $2 billion spaceship had been slated to undergo a lengthy overhaul beginning in 2008 and would not have been ready to fly again until the very end of the shuttle program.

NASA plans between 16 and 18 missions to finish assembly of the International Space Station, and likely will launch another flight to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

Atlantis is scheduled to fly five missions between July and mid-2008. Sister ships Discovery and Endeavour will be used to complete construction of the orbiting outpost after that.

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#1  21 February 2006 - 20:57

 

Its about time they start...the damn things run on flips and switches practically

thebigbaton

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