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Cape Canaveral, KOMPAS.com - Mission 7 astronauts from the plane re-alik Discovery space almost done. Discovery crew to ensure their readiness before starting the plane back to Florida.

Discovery is ready to return to earth on Saturday (28 / 3) afternoon local time, in order to end the mission for almost 2 weeks to generate a total energy capacity of the International Space Station (iss) and install the latest one set of solar wing panels. Weather estimated are held at Discovery landing to earth.

The astronauts had berbicang through this area along with some school students and U.S. President Barack Obama is to contact them from Washington early this weekend. "We are all proud to fulfill the mission iss energy capacity additions," said one of the Discovery crew, John Phillips, now involved in talks with several area high school students Honolulu, Friday (27 / 3).

Time to return to earth, Discovery will conduct trials barrier against heat. Tails eksprimen which is located on the left wing akan Discovery exposed to 1650 degrees celsius when the down to earth.

Some NASA officials explain, that has a tail thickness 7.6 centimeters summer storm that is feared not cause damage to the wing. Storm damage to the heat in the left-wing aircraft has caused Columbia accident in 2003 that resulted in the death of the seventh astronot.

A U.S. Navy aircraft will fly under the plane when Discovery re-alik this outer fly above the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico toward Florida. This system will be hot on the tails Discovery camera with infra red.

Ekor Discovery of new type was developed as the potential for re-alik plane that is scheduled to end operations at the time of the next year. Discovery mission planned operations will be replaced with the Orion crew vehicle is expected to be able to iss and months and eventually to Mars.

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Source: AP