Space shuttle Discovery blasts from the state of Florida

Once he Space Shuttle Columbia on one of the final missions before closing the program office at the end of 2010 is an assignment of equipment and supplies to the station.
And carry astronauts will be put in space three times to make repairs on the station and the recovery experience.
Shuttle which launches from space in Florida the Kennedy Center and includes three female astronauts for the first time.The shuttles come to the end of their lives as useful tools and Gallacher BBC correspondent in Miami Andy says he is not yet clear what will replace them.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the Space Center soon to clarify the direction NASA in the future.
Our correspondent says some 6,000 are expected to lose jobs as reducing the space program again.
White House wants to shut down the development of spacecraft intended to replace the shuttle which had been taken astronauts to the moon by 2020.
But the plans have met with the negative reception in the U.S. Congress. Politicians say that is not replaced by defined strategy and clear enough and lacked a timetable.Emotional in an interview in some cases with the BBC News NASA Administrator Maj. Gen. Charles Bolden admitted that he was willing enough to come out and explain the president's plan. But he also expressed his determination to win over skeptics.
We explained to the people on Capitol Hill and to the American public that we are not losing our leadership in the exploration rights and we are not losing our leadership in space exploration. he said.
Prime NASA shuttle through the tears

NASA gave the shuttle mission management team on Saturday unanimously adopted a go for launch despite the distortions seen in the recent ground test of the devices of the vehicle.
Engineers said the anomalies that were discovered during testing of enhanced devices are unlikely to affect the safety of all.
Said Mike Moses, the launch of space shuttle director of integration said: We are really excited about this mission and science and we'll be able to get on board the International Space Station Lkiem what it should do and show their real .. national laboratory.
Spacewalkers will Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson, to replace one of the gyroscopes space station which has failed switch tank of ammonia.