Update on Upcoming Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130 Mission

Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-130...
Launch Date Set for February 7, 2010 -
Astronauts Polish Skills
Thursday, December 17, 2009
10:19am CST

About above Image: Crew trainer Patrick Jones (right) briefs STS-130 crew members during a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Pictured from the left are Pilot Terry Virts Jr., Mission Specialists Nicholas Patrick and Robert Behnken, Commander George Zamka and Mission Specialists Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire.
Image credit: NASA/JSC
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Space Shuttle Endeavour's Mission to the International Space Station is targeted to begin Feb. 7, 2010, with a 4:39 a.m. EST liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians working in Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building completed preparing Endeavour for its rollout to Launch Pad 39A. Following a holiday break, rollout is scheduled to begin Jan. 6, 2010, at 4 a.m.
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In Houston, the crew of Endeavour is taking part in an integrated simulation with the Flight Dynamics Officer and Booster Systems Engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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Endeavour's STS-130 Mission in a Nutshell
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Commander George Zamka will lead the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour.
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Terry Virts will serve as the pilot. Mission specialists are Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip to space.
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Endeavour will deliver a third connecting module, The Tranquility Node, to the station in addition to the seven-windowed Cupola module, which will be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.
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STS-130 is the 32nd Shuttle Mission to the station.
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JUST FIVE MISSIONS LEFT
(Including this mission of STS-130)
For The Space Shuttle Program
Sad in one way... but extremely exciting in another.
Hello, Mars... Here we come!!!
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