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NASA announced on July 1, 2010, that it has confirmed the launch dates of STS-133 and STS-134. The space shuttle program is officially active through the end of February 2011.

The U.S. space agency announced on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, that it would like to delay the last two space shuttle missions so the last one lifts off in February 2011, rather than in November 2010.

NASA is offering to put a picture of YOU on one of its two last space shuttle flights. The U.S. space agency says, 'launch your face into space and become a part of history.'

A robot will become a member of the International Space Station starting in September 2010 when the STS-133 crew delivers the human-style droid R2 to the Space Station onboard the space shuttle Discovery.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has delayed the end of the Space Shuttle Program for about two months, to at least November 2010, so that it can be fitted with a different magnetic that should allow the AMS to last longer when it is attached to the International Space Station.

The crew of the NASA STS-131 mission has landed its space shuttle Discovery successfully and safety at the Kennedy Space Center, with the STS-132 crew preparing its mission of the space shuttle Atlantic, which already sits on its KSC launch pad 39A.