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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">"WASHINGTON — Brushing aside White House objections, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a one-year NASA authorization bill that would require the space agency to conduct an extra space shuttle mission to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International Space station.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">The White House says that requiring NASA to fly the AMS could require the agency to operate the space shuttle beyond 2010 and further delay the fielding of its successor, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle and Ares I rocket."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">http://www.space.com/news/080619-house-shuttle-flight-bill.html</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">I couldnt see any mention of this in Nasa's recently revised shuttle manifest. So does this mission exist if they require it?</span></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>