But first, the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery will be enjoying another day in space.
The astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery today used a computer simulator to practice landing in preparation for their planned return to Earth tomorrow.
Hoshide had previously visited the ISS on a mission with the space shuttle Discovery.
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.
Dark storm clouds and the threat of lightening are keeping space shuttle Discovery on the ground.
Clinton said that as she spoke, America's 50th woman in space was orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Discovery.
The re-boost sets the ISS up for the visit of space shuttle Discovery next month.
On Thursday, October 29, the launch of space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is to take place on a nine-day Spacehab mission.
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.
In 1988, in the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.
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).
"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.
Space Shuttle Discovery blasted into orbit yesterday with a Japanese science lab the size of a school bus in tow.
To prove the concept, an early version of AMS spent 10 days in space aboard space shuttle Discovery in 1998.
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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.
Hernandez will serve as Discovery's flight engineer for launch and landing, and will wield robotic arms on the shuttle and space station.
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