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The artwork for the STS-134 mission is now available. STS-134 will be the final flight of Endeavour, the second-to-last shuttle mission of all time, and will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station. The mission is scheduled for launch no earlier than July 29, 2010.

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Crew:

Commander: Mark Kelly

Pilot: Gregory Johnson

Mission Specialist 1: Michael Fincke

Mission Specialist 2: Robert Vittori (ESA)

Mission Specialist 3: Andrew Feustel

Mission Specialist 4: Gregory Chamitoff

After this flight there will only be one more mission patch released (for STS-133 in September),

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How come they're out of order? 134 then 133?

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How come they're out of order? 134 then 133?

STS-133 was manifested as the final flight a long time ago. Before leaving office, Bush signed a budget that provided funds to deliver the AMS via an extra flight (it was left out because the budget was too tight to bring it up under the guideline to end the program by September 2010). Since all the payloads and planning documents were all already assigned to STS-133, they called the new one 134 and slotted it ahead of 133. It's alot easier to do that than to re-write the piles of checklists, documents, filings, etc for the sake of appearances. There was discussion late last year about possibly adding an STS-135 flight, in which case it would have also been slotted before 133. It happened a lot in the past when payloads slipped or they changed the order of things to do from the original planning. Last year 119, for example, flew after 126.

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Sweet Jeebus....Holy Busy Logo!!!

Is this typical of NASA logos????

Atoms are busy things... ;) It's quite obviously based on the atomic diagram since it's all about delivering a device to be used for searching for dark matter:

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If you want a good overview of all the shuttle patches I recommend starting here: spacepatches.nl. It is far from the busiest and, actually, I think it's one of the best ones. I suspect alot of metallic thread will be used when they embroider this one.

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