Last Discovery space shuttle launch to take place soon

Preparations are underway for a space shuttle launch in Florida. It could be the next to last to fly. The space shuttle Discovery will take off on Wed, Nov. 3, and only one more mission will remain in the space shuttle launch schedule. The mission for Discovery will take it to the International Space Station, and it seems a nondescript ending for the craft. It can be the previous flight for Discovery. After the mission, the shuttle will likely be mothballed and placed in the Smithsonian to replace the shuttle Enterprise.

Following this, there won't be any more space shuttle launches for Discovery

The final space shuttle for Discovery will be launched on Wed November 3. MSNBC accounts that this will occur at about 3:52 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The International Space Station will get to see six astronauts that will come in the space shuttle Discovery. It isn’t the last shuttle mission, but it’s the final mission for Discovery, one of the most used shuttle in all of the NASA fleet. Once this launch is wrapped up, there can be only one more NASA launch of a space shuttle. There has not been any kind of announcement on the new program replacing the space shuttles from the govt. Many think that a "space taxi" to get astronauts into space is what the government is looking into right now.

Now we see the era ends

the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy is why the space shuttle program may be concluding. Columbia disintegrated upon re-entering Earth’s atmosphere in 2003, which caused then-President Bush to cancel the shuttle program, according to ABC. The replacement program brought Apollo-size rockets and capsules back and was called the constellation program. The Obama administration cancelled that though. As it was an old idea of rehashing the Apollo program, the whole program was cut. Nevertheless in design stage is the Hundred Year Starship. That could be something different though.

The master plan for NASA

Currently, National Aeronautics and Space Administration is coordinating with various companies and contractors to discover suitable transportation. One option might be something Space X, Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk founded, came up with. These would contain the Falcon Series rockets.

Citations

MSNBC

msnbc.msn.com/id/39948971/ns/technology_and_science-space/

ABC News

abcnews.go.com/Technology/florida-unemployment-acute-space-coast-jobs-threatened-end/story?id=12019380&page=1