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13-02-09 Preparations for the STS-119 Mission Move Forward

NASA managers have scheduled space shuttle Discovery's Flight Readiness Review,or FRR,which will be held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,for Feb.20.A news conference will follow the meeting to announce the STS-119 mission's official launch date.At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston,the STS-119 astronauts are reviewing robotics work for their upcoming mission while Commander Lee Archambault and Pilot Tony Antonelli break away for landing practice in NASA's shuttle training aircraft in the skies over White Sands Space Harbor in Las Cruces,N.M