NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialis

NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus, STS-135 mission specialist, flies in a T-38 trainer on her way from Houston to the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.

Magnus was flying in a plane piloted by Doug Hurley, while Commander Chris Ferguson and mission specialist Rex Walheim are in the plane at left.

The crew is preparing for space shuttle Atlantis' scheduled liftoff on July 8.

Picture: AP

DLR Portal - Early bird special – watch the TanDEM-X launch live

DLR Portal - Early bird special – watch the TanDEM-X launch live



TanDEM-X, Germany's new Earth observation satellite, is scheduled for launch on Monday, 21 June 2010 at 04:14 CEST. Together with its twin, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X will survey all 150 million square kilometres of Earth's land surface several times during its three-year mission. We will stream the TanDEM-X launch live from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, as well as an exclusive infotainment programme from the control centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.