Continued low cloud coverage at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility forced flight controllers to pass on STS-131's second landing opportunity Monday.

This was the last opportunity for space shuttle Discovery to land today.

The next Kennedy Space Center landing opportunity is Tuesday with a deorbit burn at 6:28 a.m. EDT and landing at 7:34 a.m.

Edwards Air Force Base in California also is expected to be called up for Tuesday landing opportunities.

Source: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. ARISS - Poland School Contact Successful
3. Astronaut Training Status

1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled for Jessup Elementary School in Houston, Texas on Monday, April 19 at 18:43 UTC. This will be a telebridge connection through ground station WH6PN in Hawaii. The school has integrated the ARISS activity into the school curriculum, specifically focusing on science, math, and language arts instruction across the pre-kindergarten to the fourth grade level.

Belgium school contact with - Timothy Creamer, KC5WKI planned for Tuesday, April 27, 2010

This chance to participate in an ARISS project has been actively embraced by the Science faculty and it is here where the opportunities for curricular integration are gaining momentum. In our 1st Year Secondary (typically aged 11) students study forces, gravity, weight and basic ideas about ‘fields'. In the 2nd Year, studies of the Solar System, and well beyond, link directly to the Shuttle missions and the International Space Station. In Year 7 (the final Baccalaureate year, when most students are aged18) the Physics section on ‘Gravitational Fields' is mainly about the mechanics of planetary and satellite motion. Topics (and questions) are often presented within the context of NASA and ESA missions.