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The proper planning to have a vehicle in place to replace shuttle when it lands its last landing. >> reporter: that last landing will probably be sometime in july. they will be using the orbiter "atlantis" for the last flight. i know you want one of these and i do, toop. robo knot 2 is flying up and at the international space station. he will be the seventh crew member up there and do all kinds of menial things like change the light bulbs and stuff like that. right now he has just half a body, this first generation. so they got to kind of push him around to his workstations. but, eventually, y...

>> one minute and counting the sequencer will verify the three main engines are ready to start. is the booster joint heaters are being deactivated at this time. t-minus 48 seconds. we're transferring to orbiter internal power. "discovery" is running now on its three on-board fuel cells. t-minus 31 seconds. >> autosequence start. >> we have a go for autosequence start, "discovery's" on-board computers have primary control of the vehicle's primary functions. 20 seconds. the sound suppression water system has been activated protecting "discovery" and the launchpad from acoustical energy waves. go...

And the pilot eric bo as well as the four others, the mission specialists they are now all strapped in looking forward, which in their position as you can see is looking straight up so right now three minutes, 40 seconds remaining before this launch "discovery" took up john glenn the then senator and then a senior citizen advancing understanding of what the human body takes at that age "discovery" was the orbiter for that "discovery" was the orbiter that took up the hubble space tell coast in 1990. after the challenger disaster and colombia disaster it was "discovery" which was the shuttle tha...

>>shepard: through you go and now we know he will command and how he came to that decision. how long will he be away from his wife, chris? >>reporter: i am guessing a minimum of about three weeks because the mission is two weeks long, and before they actually launch the six-member crew is put under quarantine for a week best launch so no one gets sick so the last four days of that quarantine are spent in florida so there is all the possibility of a weather launch or they could extend the mission if the orbiter is damaged and anything shy of a month is conservative of the. >>shepard: thank you,...