Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on 5th April 2010 which is among of its last journeys towards International Space Station (ISS). The shuttle will be supplying necessary equipments for the International Space Station to run smoothly along with will do some experiments in the space. For the first time three female astronauts have boarded the shuttle simultaneously. The space program will be closing later as announced and the shuttles like Discovery will be invalid as a transporting vehicle but the replacement system has not been announced yet. USA President Barak Obama will be visiting in Space centre to decide the future plans for it. Over six thousand jobs are expected to lose after the program is shut down.

Although there were some technical difficulties at the hardware of Discovery in ground level, the Engineers allowed it to go in the sky. Spacewalkers of Discovery, Rick Mustachio and Clay Anderson will replace faulty Gyroscope of the International Space Station and will change an Ammonia Tank which has been empty of late, disturbing the work of shifting the heat from inside space station to outside.

Space shuttle Discovery has many awards in its service history from 1984 up to 2010, which also includes some tragic events like death of its seven crew members along with one Indian, Kalpana Chawla. It happened in 2003 when Discovery disintegrated above the land of Texas on its journey back home, after completion of mission called STS-107.

In the current mission, the astronauts will retrieve one experiment, placed on the exterior of the Japanese laboratory, Kibo some years ago. Discovery is carrying about 7,700kgs of cargo inside a pressurized container, which is called Multi Purpose Logistic Module, a sleeping quarter for the crews who will go to the International Space Station in future and some science racks for future experiments. There will be three flights more for Discovery before it is considered retired, scheduled to happen at the end of 2010 or in 2011.