Sunday, February 27, 2011

Shuttle «Discovery» dock with the station in the last trips to space

Space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station in late Msaouasbt in the last trip by vehicle to the station.

And met with the shuttle crew, consisting of six astronauts were welcomed by the six astronauts already on board the station are from the United States, Russia and Italy.

The vehicle transport mechanism the second European «AT 2» has docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, where it was transferred a shipment of astronauts hours before the date of the launch of Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Must be organized and accessible to all spacecraft to the International Space Station carefully, where it was necessary docking vehicle «AT 2» before the launch of shuttle Discovery to avoid any collision in space.

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