CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has pushed up by a day its first space shuttle launch attempt of the year, a mission that will continue construction of the international space station, officials said Thursday.

Space shuttle Atlantis and its six astronauts are now set to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center at 5:43 a.m. CST on March 15. Final approval of that date will be made at a meeting of NASA managers at the end of February.

''Everybody agrees that it was something that was doable if all other processing activities go smoothly,'' said NASA spokesman Kyle Herring in Houston. The space shuttle mission is scheduled to last 11 days, although NASA is considering extending it to as many as 13 days to give the astronauts more time for their tasks.

The astronauts will deliver another solar array and truss segment to the space station, continuing an ambitious schedule to complete construction by 2010, when the shuttle program is to end. The launch window likely would close around March 25 so that Atlantis' visit to the space station doesn't interfere with the planned launch of a Russian Soyuz vehicle carrying new crew members to the space station. The Russians had planned to launch the Soyuz on April 9 but may bump up the lift-off by two days.

Evo nesto o posadi



Commander Frederick W. Sturckow
Veteran dve satlove misije, i on ce upravljati posadom
na 21 satlovoj misiji za svemirsku stanicu.
 



Pilot Lee Joseph Archambault
Vazdusni komadant sa preko 4250 sati letenja u vise od 30
aviona, on ce sluziti kao pilot
   

     

Mission Specialist James F. Reilly II
Kao iskusan u svemirskom hodanju, pridruzice se kao specialista.                                                                                                 
                                                                   



Mission Specialist Steve R. Swanson
Kao clan astronautske klase od 1998, Steve ce putovati
prvi put u svemir kao specialista.




Mission Specialist Pat G. Forrester
Je pocinio dva opasna svemirska hodanja
i izabran je za posadu nove misije takodje specialista.




Mission Specialist John D. Olivas
Bivsi menadzer NASA-ine Jet laboratorije pridruzice se
kao specialista na njegovom prvom letu u svemir .

  bravo

complet crew

na slici zajednickoj koju sam postavio vidi se deo koji ce da nadograde on je okruzen narandzatom bojom

kad da nadograde

pa 15-og polecu, a kad ce ga namontirati neznam mozda da pogledam

da pa javi ok?

postavicu kasnije imam neke obaveze.....

pozuri