Space news from the ground

Did you all see the Space Shuttle launch Sunday night? WaS it not just the best thing ever and reminded you of how incredible space travel is?
Since take-off, the shuttle Discovery is well on its way to the International Space Station today.
Here's the latest update on what is happening up there in space from the good guys at Space.com.
NASA engineers are keeping close tabs on a piece of Soviet-era space trash to decide whether to move the International Space Station before the arrival of the shuttle Discovery on Tuesday.
Discovery launched toward the station with seven astronauts aboard on late Sunday, and is due to dock at the orbiting lab tomorrow at 5:13 p.m. EDT (2113 GMT). But the offending piece of space debris, a remnant from the Soviet navigation satellite Cosmos 1275, will zip close by the station before the shuttle arrives.
"We haven't gotten data in our office yet on how big it is," said NASA spokesperson Kylie Clem at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Clem told SPACE.com that flight controllers know the debris is expected to make its closest pass by the space station at 3:14 a.m. EDT (0714 GMT) at a distance of about 2,600 feet (793 meters), Clem said.
If NASA engineers decide they need to move the space station to dodge the space junk, they would fire the rocket engines on the outpost's Russian-built Zvezda service module at about 9:54 p.m. EDT (0154 March 17 GMT) for a short maneuver.
"We don't necessarily need to do the burn until we get more data," station commander Michael Fincke radioed down to Mission Control.
Discovery's STS-119 crew, commanded by Lee Archambault, plan to inspect their space shuttle's heat shield for damage in the first of a series of in-flight surveys to ensure their spacecraft is healthy.

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