The Discovery shuttle brought the new power unit to the ISS, docking with the platform late on Tuesday (GMT).
But first, two NASA astronauts successfully completed a space walk today and removed two troubling pieces of ceramic fabric sticking out from the Discovery Shuttle's heat shield.
Dr Patrick's first mission was as the robotic arm operator on STS-116 - a mission of the Discovery shuttle in 2006 to continue the construction of the International Space Station (ISS).
Hoshide had previously visited the ISS on a mission with the space shuttle Discovery.
Dark storm clouds and the threat of lightening are keeping space shuttle Discovery on the ground.
The re-boost sets the ISS up for the visit of space shuttle Discovery next month.
But first, the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery will be enjoying another day in space.
Clinton said that as she spoke, America's 50th woman in space was orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Discovery.
To prove the concept, an early version of AMS spent 10 days in space aboard space shuttle Discovery in 1998.
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Space Shuttle Discovery blasted into orbit yesterday with a Japanese science lab the size of a school bus in tow.
It was Garan's own experiences on the STS-124 mission of the shuttle Discovery in 2008 that stirred the emotions in him.
In 1988, in the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.
On Thursday, October 29, the launch of space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is to take place on a nine-day Spacehab mission.
The astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery today used a computer simulator to practice landing in preparation for their planned return to Earth tomorrow.
They're scheduled to blast off this Saturday on space shuttle Discovery.
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This is the first spaceflight for the two Russian Cosmonauts, but Ford was at the station in 2009 on a quick jaunt piloting the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Space shuttle Discovery docked with the orbiting outpost Sunday afternoon, bringing up the new crew: U.S. commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin.
"We were really happy to take part in delivering Expedition Three to orbit and they're having a great mission right now up there on the space station, " Horowitz told reporters after inspecting Discovery with fellow shuttle crewmembers Rick Sturckow, Dan Barry and Pat Forrester.
The seven crew members of the shuttle Discovery were awakened in their quarters at 8:30 Thursday morning and sat down to the traditional NASA breakfast of steak and eggs, along with lighter options like fruit, cereal and bagels--fussy fare unheard of in the meat-and-potatoes Mercury days.
Also: Discovery will have a Shuttle Vibration Forces (SVF) experiment attached to the sidewall.
Well, if they get back to flying Atlantis and if they get back to flying Atlantis in September, which they dearly would like to do, they have to get the Discovery ready because the new rules say you have to have another shuttle ready to fly as a rescue mission.
Meanwhile, mission specialist Charlie Camarda and pilot Jim Kelly have been continuing to inspect the shuttle for damage sustained during the climb to orbit, using the shuttle's 15m-long boom to photograph and scan Discovery's port wing.
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Endeavour, along with Discovery, Enterprise and Atlantis, became a museum piece after NASA ended its 30-year shuttle program in July 2011.
Hernandez will serve as Discovery's flight engineer for launch and landing, and will wield robotic arms on the shuttle and space station.
The two space station crews, along with the four Discovery astronauts, continued unloading supplies from the Italian-built Leonardo cargo module, a shiny giant cylinder that the shuttle crew attached to the space station on Monday.
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