This Week @NASA

As space shuttle Discovery waits at launch pad 39A for its liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center, the STS-131 crew continues to ready itself for its upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Commander Alan Poindexter and his international team of astronauts will deliver science racks for use in the stations laboratories.
The final space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope is the subject of a new IMAX film. 'Hubble 3-D' was premiered during a special event held at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
About 25 seventh-grade girls from area middle schools got up close and personal with unique aircraft and high technology when they participated in a 'Tech Trek' tour of the Dryden Flight Research Center.
The 48th Robert H. Goddard Memorial space symposium was held in Greenbelt, Maryland, home to the NASA center bearing the name of Americas pioneering rocketeer.
In March 2006, heliophysicist Lika Guhathakurta was part of a NASA-led science expedition to Libya to witness a total solar eclipse. The first 'Living with a Star' mission, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, is in space and is expected to begin producing important data about space weather for astrophysicists this spring.

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Science & Technology

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• ISS
• space
• station
• international