JLP’s Blog

After almost a year of no flights and two delays of launch because of bad weather Space Shuttle is finally flying again. As part of mission STS-121 the Space Shuttle Discovery was successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. The main mission objectives are to test new safety and repair techniques introduced after the Columbia disaster. There are also more then 2 tons of supplies that will be delivered to International Space Station (ISS). On board is ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany who will join Expedition 13 on the ISS and is expected to stay there for six months. Good luck to all the crew and the mission in general. I hope that from now on all goes well and that other missions will continue as planned. Modules for ISS assembly are already waiting to do their job.

Tags: space, astronautics, space shuttle, iss, nasa, esa