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NASA Plans to Launch 16 Shuttles by 2010
The U.S. space agency NASA is planning 16 space shuttle launches by 2010, NASA spokesperson James Cantrell said Monday.
The construction of the International Space Station will be completed in 2010 and will require 16 shuttle launches, James Cantrell said at a Moscow conference on reducing the cost of ground support and control systems for space flights.
The U.S. official announced that shuttles would take several European and Japanese research aircrafts to space within the next few months.
Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, reported on Russia’s space plans.
In 2009, Russia is going to launch the Phobos Grunt satellite to reach Phobos, Mars’s satellite, to probe its soil and take a sample back to Earth in late 2011-ealry 2012. In addition, the European Space Agency is considering coordinating the Russian experiment with a European project which is supposed to send a study probe to Mars, according to Mr. Zeleny.
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