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  The privately owned SpaceX company is renting pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and will use it to launch a test flight of the Falcon 9 rocket with an unmanned cargo craft.

 Future uses of the Falcon rocket will be to send American supplies and equipment to the International Space Station following the conclusion of the space shuttle program later this year.

 We will have LIVE video of the launch.

 

 Falcon 9: Dragon

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station  SLC 40

Video: NASA-TV Live

Date: March 22

Time: _ AM EDT

Duration: 15 years

Crew: none

 

  A new earth observation satellite built to collect data on the earth's polar ice caps is scheduled to lift-off from a Russian launch site next week on a multi-year mission.

 
The International Space Company's Kosmotros Dnepr rocket is scheduled to launch the European Space Agency's Cryosat 2 spacecraft from the Baikonur.

 We will have LIVE video of the launch.

 

 

 Kosmotros Dnepr : Cryosat 2

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan  Silo

Video: Live

Date: March

Time: 8:57 am EST

Duration: 5 years

Crew: none

 

  A Russian Proton M is set to carry a new Dish-TV satellite to orbit known as EchoStar XIV.

 EchoStar will serve over 14 million Dish-TV customers in the United States with it's HD programming via it's KU-Band antennas.

 

 

 

 Proton-M: EchoStar 14

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan  Pad 39

Video: Live

Date: March 2_, 2010

Time: _ am EDT

Duration: 10+ years

Crew: none

 

  The Arianespace corp will launch the first Ariane 5 flight of 2010, as it carries two satellites into orbit in late-March.

Ariane flight 194 will loft the ASTRA 3B and the COMSATBw 2.

 We will have LIVE video of the launch.

 

 

 

 Ariane 5: ASTRA 3B & COMSATBw 2

 Kourou, French Guiana

Video: LIVE

Date: March 24, 2010

Time: _ pm EDT

Duration: 15 years

Crew: none

 

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 Alexander Kaleri, Mikhail Komlienko and Tracy Caldwell will launch to join the Expedition 22 crew aboard the International Space Station, forming the new Expedition 23 of six.

 

 

 

 

 

Soyuz : Soyuz TMA / ISS 23

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russia
 Launch Complex

Video: NASA-TV Live

Date: April 2, 2010

Time: 12:04 am EDT

Duration: six months

Crew: three

 

 

 Space shuttle Discovery will fly her second to final mission on STS-131 as she heads to the International Space Station on a resupply mission.

 In her payload bay will be the multi-purpose logistics module.

 

 

 

 

STS-131 Discovery

Kennedy Space Center
 Launch Complex 39-A

Video: NASA-TV Live

Date: April 5, 2010

Time: 6:21 am EDT

Duration: 13 days

Crew: Seven

 

  The future of human space travel in the 2010's will start with this United Launch Alliance launch of an Atlas 5 with a test demo of a spacecraft which will likely take humans to and from the space station.

 The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle will launch from the Cape in Florida and later land after one orbit at Edwards, AFB in California.

 We will have LIVE video of the launch.

 

 Atlas V: X-37B Orbital Test

Cape Canaveral Air Force Station  SLC 41

Video: LIVE Launch TV

Date: April 19

Time: 10PM EDT

Duration: One Orbit

Crew: none

 

 

 Space shuttle Discovery will fly her second to final mission on STS-131 as she heads to the International Space Station on a resupply mission.

 In her payload bay will be the multi-purpose logistics module.

 

 

 

 

 STS-132  Atlantis

Kennedy Space Center
 Launch Complex 39-A

Video: NASA-TV Live

Date: May 14, 2010

Time: 2:28 pm EDT

Duration: 13 days

Crew: Six

 

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