NASA officials today approved new target launch dates -- Nov. 1 and Feb. 26 -- for the agency's final scheduled shuttle missions.The new target dates were established after a two-week review by various shuttle project offices. They represent the first and best opportunities for NASA to launch the STS-133 and STS-134 missions.
The official approval of the dates was made during a Program Requirements Control Board meeting.
Discovery will launch Nov. 1 on a mission to deliver a permanent storage module to the International Space Station. The previous target was Oct. 29.
Endeavour will launch Feb. 26 with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a cosmic ray detector and collector that will be fixed the station's central truss. The previous target was Feb. 28.
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If they keep pushing back the launch dates, they don't have to lay off any workers.
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