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Shuttle astronaut quits

by Stephen Withers
Thursday, 22 November 2007
! Crew assignments for space shuttle mission STS-126 have been revised following the resignation of an experienced astronaut. Related stories Discovery Channel premieres �When We Left Earth� Google to establish NASA campus Kibo added to International Space Station NASA launch pad sustains damage during STS-124 liftoff Here's the scoop: Phoenix places footprint on Mars Joan Higginbotham, who flew on Discovery's STS-116 mission in late 2006, has resigned to take up a private sector position. "Joan has done a tremendous job as an astronaut during the past 11 years," said Steve Lindsey, chief of the astronaut office at NASA's Johnson Space Center. "She contributed her expertise to nearly every space shuttle and International Space Station mission. She will be missed, but we wish her the very best in her future endeavours." Her replacement is Donald Pettit, who spend five and a half months aboard the space station as the Expedition 6 science officer. He performed two spacewalks during that mission. STS-126 is planned for September 2008. Another member of its crew, Stephen Bowen, was originally assigned to STS-124 but has been bumped to allow the shuttle to rotate a space station resident. The target date for the STS-124 launch is April 24, 2008. The primary goal of STS-126 is the delivery of a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module that will allow larger crews to live aboard the space station. Tags See All Tags Astronaut International Space Station NASA Space Shuttle Space Station Stephen Withers Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now When you subscribe get a 12 months license for LiveProject Valued at $99 USD Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Tell us what you think! better to paste your comment - this page will refresh every 15 minutes Name If the comments system keeps asking you to enter your name, tells you the message is too short, or a similar error, try removing any double quotation marks and replacing them with single quotation marks and possibly also removing any punctuation that is unnecessary, that should fix the problem - it does for us. - NEW comments system coming soon - Your Comment - smaller \| bigger Subscribe via email (Registered users only) Powered by Azrul's Jom Comment for Joomla!

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