NASA continues to keep its relatively breakneck schedule going as yet another shuttle launch will hopefully go ahead with Discovery in around a months time.  Barring any delays, the shuttle will launch around 5:00 PM on May 31 as it hauls a Japanese component to the International Space Station before it returns home on June 12.

Discovery checked in to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center this past Saturday, getting ready to roll out at the ridiculous speed of half a mile an hour on the way to the launch pad.  The mission, STS-124, is one of the last rounds of trips for the shuttles to the ISS to finish its completion.  After delivering the newest component, there will only be around eight flights left until the shuttles are retired and NASA moves on to greener pastures.

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