The US space shuttle Discovery has blasted off to join the International Space Station in the Earth's orbit to haul equipments and resources.
The lift-off occurred as scheduled on Monday before sunrise at the Kennedy space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:21 am (1021 GMT).
The shuttle Discovery, on its final mission before retirement at the end of 2010, set a record for carrying the most women in space as it took three women to join the ISS crew.
Another woman is already at the space station.
The astronauts are expected to conduct three spacewalks, to make repairs on the station and retrieve an experiment.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122529§ionid=3510208.
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