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Until receiving orders to the contrary, NASA is proceeding as if only four flights remain. Discovery is scheduled to blast off April 5, carrying up spare parts and experiments for the space station. Obama plans to visit Florida midway through the mission
-- on April 15 -- to talk up his space vision. Another flight is targeted for mid-May. But the launch set for late July -- featuring the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a major science experiment to be installed at the space station
-- is in jeopardy of falling behind. The particle physics detector is undergoing tests in the Netherlands, and NASA should know in another month whether it's on track for a summer flight. A significant delay would almost certainly force NASA to keep the shuttles flying beyond September, just to wrap up the missions currently on the books. ___ On the Net: NASA:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/
shuttle/main/index.html
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