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STS 119 Discovery Landing HD

The STS-119 mission concludes with a successful landing of the Discovery orbiter at the Kennedy Space Cente after travelling more than 5.3 million miles. The orbiter spent eight days docked to the International Space Station, leaving behind Japan's first long-duration space flyer, astronaut Koichi Wakata, and adding more power capability to the station. Discovery returned to Earth with astronaut Sandra Magnus, who spent 134 days aboard the orbiting outpost. STS-119 was the 36th flight for Discovery and the 125th of the Space Shuttle Program. Today's landing is the 70th at Kennedy.

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STS-119 (ISS assembly flight 15A) was a space shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was flown by Space Shuttle Discovery during March 2009. It delivered and assembled the fourth starboard Integrated Truss Segment (S6), and the fourth set of solar arrays and batteries to the station. The launch took place on March 15, 2009, at 7:43 p.m. EDT. Discovery successfully landed on March 28, 2009, at 3:13 p.m. EDT.

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STS-119 Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery From T-1 to MECO



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NASA Defers Setting Next Shuttle Launch Date
During a thorough review of space shuttle Discovery's readiness for flight, NASA managers decided Friday that more data and possible testing are required before launching the STS-119 mission to the International Space Station.
Engineering teams have been working to identify what caused damage to a flow control valve on shuttle Endeavour during its November 2008 flight.

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NASA decided Friday to push back the planned launch of Discovery to at least Feb. 27 to give engineers more time to carry out tests aimed at making sure critical valve trouble doesn't endanger the shuttle and its seven-member astronaut crew.
Liftoff time of Feb. 27 would be 1:32 a.m. Landing would be on March 13.

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NASA's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery this month has slipped a few more days to Feb. 22 due to extra time needed to finish tests related to newly installed valves on the spacecraft, agency officials said Friday.

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NASA on has decided to  delayed the launch of the shuttle Discovery by three more days, to the 22nd February, 2009.
The delay will allow time to test problematic fuel valves.


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NASA on Tuesday delayed next week's launch of space shuttle Discovery while it runs tests to determine whether newly installed valves would cause serious damage if they broke during liftoff.
The launch will take place no sooner than Feb. 19, seven days after the shuttle was originally scheduled to take off on a space station construction mission. The delay is needed to make certain that Discovery can fly safely with the valves that control the flow of gaseous hydrogen into the external fuel tank.

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NASA STS119 Rollout



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STS-119 Discovery Rollout to Launch Pad 39A


January 14, 2009 - Kennedy Space Centre.
Poised to fly the 125th mission of the space shuttle program, Discovery made its journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Centre (KSC).

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