latest nasa news:Discovery STS-124 Mission
Monday, March 31st, 2008March 31 2008
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-124 Mission targeted for launch May 31 2008! Exatly 2 months from today! Here is a photo of its new external tank:
Image above: Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the external tank for space shuttle Discovery is suspended over the transfer aisle as it is lifted up into a checkout cell for processing. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossman.
The external tank is the only part of a Space Shuttle that is not reused.
Here is a link to NASA’s artical:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html