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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.'

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 NASA STS-134 mission to the International Space Station will be delayed past its July 2010 launch date due to the replacement of a superconducting magnet in the mission's main instrument, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which will search for the universe's most exotic particles.