1st definite Space Shuttle launch dates
Feb. 19th, 2005 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tagrynAccording to the Houston Chronicle, Discovery will take off May 15, followed by Atlantis on July 12. Both will be supply missions to the International Space Station.
Also, via Rand Simberg's blog, some hints that the ISS completion projects may be abandoned if they aren't completed in the next couple of years. That would be an appropriate, if unfortunate, end for something that never seemed to really have much of a mandate for existance, other than to be a more-sophisticated version of Skylab and Mir.
Also, via Rand Simberg's blog, some hints that the ISS completion projects may be abandoned if they aren't completed in the next couple of years. That would be an appropriate, if unfortunate, end for something that never seemed to really have much of a mandate for existance, other than to be a more-sophisticated version of Skylab and Mir.
