Following a two-week mission in space, Space Shuttle Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center on April 20, 2010.
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Spacewalkers were Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson. EVA #3 lasted for 6 hours and 24 minutes. The empty ammonia tank previously removed from the space station’s truss was moved into the space shuttle’s payload bay.
Spacewalkers were Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson. EVA #2 lasted for 7 hours and 26 minutes. The astronauts removed an empty ammonia tank from the space station’s truss.
Spacewalkers were Rick Mastracchio and Clayton Anderson. EVA #1 lasted for 6 hours and 27 minutes. A new ammonia tank was removed from space shuttle’s payload bay and an experiment from Kibo’s Exposed Facility was retrieved as well.
Cryosat 2 launched on April 8, 2010, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Cryosat 2 was placed in orbit by a Dnepr launch vehicle. Cryosat has been designed to measure the ice thickness on land and also at sea, and will provide enough data so that a precise rate of change of the ice thickness can be determined.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off successfully on April 5, 2010, from Kennedy Space Center\’s Launch Pad 39A. The primary payload of the mission is the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo, which is filled with food and science supplies for the International Space Station. The STS-131 crew consists of Commander Alan Poindexter, Pilot James Dutton, Mission Specialists Richard Mastracchio, Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson, JAXA\’s Naoko Yamazaki, and Clayton Anderson.
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