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Saturday, February 27, 2010

STS-131 Discovery Set for April 5, 2010

Seated are Commander Alan Poindexter (right) and Pilot James P. Dutton Jr. From the left (standing) are Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio, Stephanie Wilson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazaki and Clayton Anderson. Image credit: NASA

STS-131 Discovery is set for launch on Monday, April 5, 2010 at 6:21 EDT from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida as one of the final four flights of the space shuttle system set for retirement later this year. It will be will be the 38th and second-to-last mission for shuttle Discovery. Discovery will make the final space shuttle flight with STS-124 in the fall.

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