April 3, 2008
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NASA reschedules shuttle launch date
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — The U.S. space agency has announced a new launch date for space shuttle Discovery and its STS-124 mission to the International Space Station.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration controllers said the re-scheduling of the May 25 launch to 5:01 p.m. EDT May 31 was necessitated by a delay in the shipment of the shuttle’s external fuel tank.
The shipment of the tank from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida was delayed by weather. Additionally, NASA said the rescheduling avoids having the launch team work through the Memorial Day weekend.
Discovery’s STS-124 mission — NASA’s 26th flight to the ISS — is the second of three flights that will deliver components to complete the Japan space agency’s Kibo laboratory that will be the space station’s largest science laboratory, measuring 37 feet long and 14 feet in diameter. The shuttle also will deliver the lab’s robotic arm system that support operations outside of Kibo. The lab’s logistics module, which was installed in a temporary location during STS-123 in March, will be attached to the new lab.Love
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” - John 3:16-17 NASB
On a recent episode of “A Muslim Journey to Hope,” a man named Emrah, who grew up in Turkey, described how his devout Muslim parents sent him to a Catholic school because they had seen corruption and “bad behavior” in the public schools. There, in the Catholic school, he had his “first exposure to Christ.”
In the beginning, Emrah was just curious. Then a friend shared Jesus with him, warning, “If you don’t receive Christ as your Savior, you will go to hell!” Emrah became angry, abusing his friend verbally and even physically. Finally, realizing that religion was driving a wedge between their friendship, Emrah proposed a truce. But his friend relented and explained to Emrah that he felt compelled to tell him the Truth. His friend desperately wanted Emrah to know how much God loved him.
Emrah simply couldn’t forget his friend’s words and later asked more questions. He “started questioning who this Jesus person really was.” He heard Jesus could change hearts and lives and realized that this was what he needed.
Finally, one day he got on his knees and prayed, “Okay, Jesus, if You are real and if You can really change hearts the way people say You can, then You can really change my life. I want You to do this.” From that moment, his life changed. Only later, Emrah learned that many people had been praying for him. Now he wants to tell everyone about God’s love and what Jesus can do for them.
Today, millions of people need to know this same love, this same Savior. He loved us so much that He died for us. Share your testimony, and live your life so that others might know the Truth.
Comments (14)
How big is this space station going to be when it’s done? Wow! That’s a large chunck to ship into space!
when my best friend died she refused to pray with her brother but at the moment of death I still have hope that in her heart she excepted God.
Our God is so big….
We just had a man in his 60′s come to know the Lord. The church had been praying for him for many years. God is good.
I find Christians, not Christ or anything about the faith, tend to turn people off Christianity. I guess everybody has a different way of sharing their testimony, but I find demonstrating how you live far more compelling evidence that Christ has helped you than people who preach but don’t nearly live up to what they tell others to do. I find they have double standards. If that makes sense? I don’t know. I’m kind of rambling.
I enjoy hearing conversion stories.
@steph843 - You’re so right about Christians or I should say the Church. There are few churches that really stand up for the “right” things.
@Kowpatty - That’s so exciting. 60 year old man. -very encouraging.
@jillcarmel - I have known people like that – I want to hold on to any shred of hope that they may have made it to heaven.
@bubenun - I can’t remember how many countries are involved – I want to say at least 5. France was the one that sent the supples.
@Randy7777 - yes, you never know.
I was saddened recently by a t-shirt I saw a girl wearing… There was a cross with a red circle around it and a line going through it. Underneath it said “Ban Religion”. I thought, how sad that she doesn’t know the joy and peace that Christ offers. I lacked the courage to say anything.
Thanks for sharing…..
Reschedule shuttle launch date…
Some one told me that when the shuttles go up our weather has been changing.
We have been having strange weather in the past year.
RYC:
Yeah, I cannot wait for God’s government to come on the earth for GOOD.
@pitluvbooboo - That is so sad. I couldn’t imagine life without Jesus.