STS 133 LAUNCHED!

Yesterday, just before 10:00pm, (Discovery shuttle) STS 133 finnaly launched after a wait of around 7 months for me! I of course watched it live with the live feed widget from spaceflightnow.com and after such a long wait it was stunning and fantastic to finaly see the shuttle leave pad 39A and soar into space to dock on the ISS.

Image courtesy of NASA


This shall be the last important post on STS 133.blogspot and I hope you appreciated the launch as much as I have.

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STS 133 launch today!

Six astronauts will strap aboard the space shuttle today to take Discovery on her last orbital voyage before retirement, soaring toward the International Space Station to deliver one final module. Liftoff is planned for 4:50 p.m. EST (2150 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Significantly postponed

With repairs to its external tank complete, engineers began hauling the shuttle Discovery back to launch pad 39A Monday evening for work to ready the ship for blastoff Feb. 24 on a flight to deliver critical spare parts, supplies and a final U.S. module to the International Space Station.

STS 133 is expected to launch on Feb. 24 at 4:50:19 p.m. Florida time, still from launch pad 39A.

For more information, see http://spaceflightnow.com/

For the official NASA website, see http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

For my main blog, see http://astrostevesblog.blogspot.com/