NASA will launch the first of three final space shuttle missions next week, sending the shuttle Discovery on its last flight on a long-delayed cargo run to the International Space Station, officials said on Friday. Liftoff of the Discovery, NASA's senior spaceship, is targeted for Thursday at 4:50 p.m. (2150 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center, according to a report of Reuters. 'The teams have done a great job. I think we're ready to go next week,' Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, told reporters.
