Three women among the crew of the shuttle Discovery for the first time

For the first time, preparing the shuttle American Discovery for launch at dawn on Monday to the International Space Station on board a crew of seven astronauts, including three women, and to download the pioneers to the station on Wednesday as expected will be four women in the orbit in a world first, where Today the U.S. will reach Tracy Caldwell Dyson to the International Space Station with two Russian cosmonauts aboard the Russian Soyuz vehicle, which was launched last Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.


And the boot process said «Mike Moses» responsible for the preparation of the launch during a press conference on Saturday: "gather us that everything is ready for launch Monday," The countdown officially Friday at seven o'clock GMT, and continues to forecast weather conditions are excellent with 80 % of favorable opportunities when you take off on what the weather expert said «Kathy Winters» at the same time pointing to the possibility of obtaining some of the fog.

Discovery is scheduled for launch on Monday at 10:21 GMT from the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral in Florida (Southeast United States).