You may not be able to squeeze your entire body onto NASA's last two space shuttle missions in record, but your face can go – at no charge. All it takes is a digital photo and a few clicks of the mouse.NASA is collect digital photos and names from the public to start on the two final space shuttle missions scheduled before the famed reusable space planes leave for good.
The photographs and names can be uploaded to a fresh website under the "Face in Space" program."The Space Shuttle Program belong to the public, and we are excited when we can provide an chance for people to share the adventure of our missions," NASA's space shuttle program chief John Shannon said in a statement. "This website will allow you to be a part of history and join as we complete our final missions."NASA's next shuttle mission is slated to start on Sept. 16 aboard Discovery, the oldest space shuttle in the three-orbiter fleet.
That mission will deliver a robot assistant to the International Space Station along with a cargo pod refitted to serve as a stable closet for the orbiting lab.The U.S. space agency's final shuttle flight will be committed Endeavour, the fleet's youngest spaceship. That mission is set to start no earlier than Nov. 27 to deliver a $1.5 billion astrophysics instrument to hunt for antimatter galaxies and other phenomena in universe.
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