Final ISS Solar Array Set for Launch on Discovery Feb. 12

Credit: NASA/CHRIS RHODES
NASA’s oldest surviving space shuttle orbiter is in place for launch next week to deliver the fourth and final U.S. solar array to the International Space Station, a risky and complex mission designed to boost the station power grid so it can handle a full-time crew of six instead of three. In the...

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