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T-minus 10 missions and counting: STS-119 Commander: Mark Polansky Of Note: Deliver Node 3 and Cupola to the 10 remaining missions on Launch Date: Today Pilot: Douglas Hurley station. Node 3 houses advanced life support Orbiter: Discovery Mission Specialist: systems and six berthing ports for future station NASA’s shuttle manifest Mission Specialist: /Canadian Space expansion. The Cupola is a robotic control Mission: Deliver fourth and final Agency center with six windows that provide a 360- set of American solar wings; Mission Specialist: degree view of the outpost. Three spacewalks. President Barack Obama is sticking with Mission Specialist: plans to complete the International Space complete station’s central truss. Hire becomes the first former KSC worker to Mission Specialist (Up): make a second trip to space. Station and retire NASA’s shuttle fleet in Commander: Mission Specialist (Down): 2010. His recently released budget gave Pilot: Dominic “Tony” Antonelli NASA the green light to add a single shuttle Mission Specialist: Joseph Acaba Of Note: First station assembly mission to stage STS-131 mission to its schedule — if it can be carried Mission Specialist: five spacewalks. First mission to swap out Launch Date: March 18, 2010 out “safely and affordably” by the end of Mission Specialist: Richard Arnold batteries on the station’s central truss. Wakata Orbiter: Atlantis 2010. Mission Specialist: John Phillips returns from the first long-term Japanese tour at Mission Specialist (Up): Koichi Wakata the station. Commander: Alan Poindexter Here is a snapshot of remaining missions. Mission Specialist (Down): Pilot: Nine will be flown to complete the Mission Specialist: Of Note: Four spacewalks by Acaba, Swanson and STS-128 International Space Station and one Launch Date: Late Mission Specialist: will be launched to service the Hubble Arnold. Wakata sets out on the first long-term station tour for the Japanese Aerospace August/early September Mission Specialist: Dorothy Metcalf- Space Telescope: Exploration Agency. Orbiter: Discovery Lindenburger Mission Specialist: Commander: Frederick “C.J.” STS-125 Mission Specialist: /Japan Sturckow Aerospace Exploration Agency Launch Date: May 12 Pilot: Kevin Ford Orbiter: Atlantis Mission Specialist: John Olivas Mission Specialist: Patrick Forrester Of Note: Deliver a Multi-Purpose Logistics Mission: Fifth and final Mission Specialist: Jose Hernandez Module with science experiment equipment, mission to Hubble Space Mission Specialist: /European a new sleep station and supplies to the Telescope. Install Wide Field Space Agency station. Three spacewalks. Last scheduled Camera 3 and Cosmic Mission Specialist (Up): flight of Atlantis. Origins Spectrograph. Repair Advanced Mission Specialist (Down): Timothy Kopra Camera for Surveys and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. Of Note: Deliver Multi-Purpose Logistics Module STS-132 Equip observatory for additional Leonardo with supplies and equipment, including Launch Date: May 13, 2010 five years of observations. new research racks for six-member resident crew. Orbiter: Discovery Three spacewalks. Stott will become the third Crew: TBD Commander: Scott Altman former KSC worker to fly in space and the last Pilot: Gregory C. Johnson station expedition to be launched on Deliver a Russian Mini Research Mission Specialist: Michael the shuttle. Of Note: Good Module identical to the station’s Pirs Docking Mission Specialist: Megan Compartment as well as a U.S. Integrated McArthur STS-129 Cargo Carrier. The payload includes an Mission Specialist: John Launch Date: Nov. 12 and European robot arm for the Russian Mini Grunsfeld Orbiter: Atlantis Research Module, six batteries, a boom Mission Specialist: Michael assembly for the station’s Ku-band Massimino Commander: Charles Hobaugh communications antenna and spare parts Mission Specialist: Andrew Pilot: Barry Wilmore Feustel Mission Specialist: for the station’s two-armed Canadian robot Mission Specialist: Michael Foreman Dextre. Of Note: Five spacewalks on Mission Specialist: Randy Bresnik consecutive days. Mission Specialist: Leland Melvin Mission Specialist (Down): Nicole Stott STS-133 Launch Date: July 29, 2010 STS-127 Orbiter: Endeavour Launch Date: June 13 Of Note: Deliver two external experiment platforms Orbiter: Endeavour with spare parts: two gyroscopes, two nitrogen Crew: TBD tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia Mission: tank, a high- gas tank and spare parts Of Note: Deliver two external experiment Deliver the for the robot arm and mobile transporter. Three platforms and large spare parts to the station. Kibo spacewalks. Former KSC worker Stott will return Final scheduled mission for Endeavour. 134th Japanese to Earth from a stint on the station. shuttle mission; 164th NASA human space Experiment flight from U.S. soil. Module Exposed Facility. (The “back porch” STS-130 will serve as a platform Launch Date: February 2010 Orbiter: Endeavour STS-134 for experiments outside Launch date: Sept. 16, 2010 the outpost.) Complete Commander: George Zamka Orbiter: Discovery assembly of the Crew: TBD Japanese segment of Pilot: Terry Virts the station. Mission Specialist: Robert Behnken Mission Specialist: Of Note: The NASA Authorization Act of 2008 Mission Specialist: Kathryn “Kay” Hire adds this one additional shuttle flight to Mission Specialist: Stephen Robinson launch the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and other scientific equipment to the International Space Station. Money for the mission has not yet been appropriated, but President Barack Obama’s recently released budget blueprint for fiscal year 2010 calls for NASA to add a mission to its manifest.

Also of Note: 135th and final shuttle mission.

Shuttle Discovery on the launch pad last year. TODAY file photo

Source: NASA, researched by Todd Halvorson, FLORIDA TODAY Graphic by Dennis Lowe, FLORIDA TODAY