When will  NASA launch the  moon  space shuttle ?
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The current plans call for the next manned moon mission to take place in 2015.
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Check the NASA website, they have descriptions of all of the space shuttle flights.
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According to the U.S. Naval Observatory site, the moon will be full June 11 at  18:03 universal time.
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Zero percent possibility of a lauch on Saturday due to the possibility of thunderstorms and lightning near the launch pad.  100% chance of a launch on Tuesday, July 4th.
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July 11 at  03:02, Universal Time.\n\nThere's a table of the moon's phases on the Web site of the United States Naval Observatory:\n\nhttp://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/MoonPhase.html
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http://www.astronautix.com/craft/buran.htlm\nhttp://www.astronautix.com/lvs/energia.htlm\nhttp://www.hightechscience.org/buran_space\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle\nhope it will help.\nThe only working, flight-ready,and worthy space shuttle is NASA's space shuttle fleet.
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To answer this question we need to look at why we went to the moon in the first place.  In 1957 the USSR launched Sputnik into space, and the space race began.  President Kennedy gave his 1961 Inaugural Address ("And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.") and sparked an interest for the United States to beat the USSR.  We made it to the moon first with Apollo 11.  The USSR eventually lost power and collapsed.  The United States was the only world power and didn't have any competition in space.  In the past 5-10 years, other countries have started taking an interest in space.  Japan, China, and the European Union all have plans to continue their space programs, and will eventually start to have manned missions.  The United States will then have to react and restart the space program and send people to the moon and beyond.  One important thing to note about the upcoming space race is that it will not only be for military research, but also for industry.  We will have to have manned missions throughout the solar system to start and maintain the mining of resources that will happen in the coming decades and centuries.  Unless Japan, China, or the European Union have massive leaps in technology, the United States will put it's 2020 Moon Goal on the way side because of expenses and lack of monetary return. (Check out the website for the current national debt.)
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There have been six.\n\n-- Apollo 11: July 16, 1969.\n(First manned landing on the Moon, July 20.)\n-- Apollo 12: November 14, 1969.\n-- Apollo 14: January 31, 1971.\n(The infamous Alan Shepard walks on the Moon.)\n-- Apollo 15: July 26, 1971.\n(First mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle.)\n-- Apollo 16: April 16, 1972.\n-- Apollo 17: December 7, 1972.\n(Last Apollo mission.)\n\nYes, all the landings were done within a 2-1/2 year period. Back then, there was a LOT of excitement about actually landing on the surface. But ever since then, the level of interest has been waning, and thus NASA could not justify the tremendous cost of a lunar expedition to Congress to appropriate the necessary funds. More focus has been going into unmanned exploration and surveying, with the bulk going into more practical Earth-orbit missions.\n\n(You'll notice that Apollo 13 is missing from the list above. If you've read the book "Lost Moon" or seen the movie "Apollo 13", then you know exactly why. ^.^)
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China has Started a manned Space programme and has said it's aim is to land on the Moon.\n\nSo the Yanks will Try to get get there first.\n\nBut their Space programme is still not up and running properly since the Columbia disaster.
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$16.5 billion \n\nSee http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/nasa.html
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Less than 34 and more than 3.  Here is a link to a copy of NASAs current shuttle flight Manifest.  It is somewhat hard to tell which flights are bringing modules and other pieces of permanent hardware to the the ISS, but it looks like at least 10 flights are. \n\nhttp://www.thespaceplace.com/shuttle/future.html
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The next New Moon occurs on June 25, 2006, at 16:09 UT. That's 12:09 pm Eastern Daylight Time in the US.
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its symbol is a crescent (). The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g. aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in approximately 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). The Moon is the Solar System's fifth largest moon, both by diameter and mass, ranking behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.\n\nThe Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned vehicles, or space probes: The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1 in 1959. The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, also in 1959. The first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966. The first (unmanned) vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10 in 1966.\n\nThe United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon: The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, and the first people to land and walk on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. The unsuccessful Soviet manned Moon project was abandoned in 1974. The Moon is the only celestial body other than the Earth upon which humans have set foot.\n\nThe two sides of the Moon\nThe Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps nearly the same face turned toward Earth at all times. Small variations resulting from the finite eccentricity of the lunar orbit, termed optical librations, allow up to about 59% of the lunar surface to be visible from Earth. The side of the Moon that faces Earth is called the near side, and the opposite side is called the far side. The far side should not be confused with the dark side, as the unilluminated hemisphere only corresponds to the far side during full moon. In fact, the far side receives (on average) slightly more sunlight than the near side due to lunar eclipse. Spacecraft are cut off from direct radio communication with Earth when behind the Moon due to line-of-sight propagation. One distinguishing feature of the far side is its almost complete lack of maria (singular: mare), which are the dark albedo features.\n\nOrbit and relationship to Earth\n \nA scale model of Earth and the MoonMain articles: The Moon's orbit and Earth and Moon\nSee also: Libration \nThe Moon makes a complete orbit about the Earth approximately once every 27.3 days. It is at present in its 4th quarter, illuminated by ca. -155% . Unlike most satellites of other planets, the Moon orbits near the ecliptic and not the Earth's equatorial plane.\n\nThe Earth and Moon have many physical effects upon one another, including the tides. Most of the tidal effects seen on the Earth are caused by the Moon's gravitational pull, with a smaller contribution from the Sun. Tidal effects result in an increase of the mean Earth-Moon distance, over long periods of time, of about 4 meters per century. As a result of the conservation of angular momentum, the increasing semimajor axis of the Moon is accompanied by a gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe Earth-Moon system may be considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system.[3] This is due
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Only a limited number of tickets are available for watching the launch from the Kennedy Space Center.  Contact the Visitor's Complex, or order online.\n\nThe are many excellent sites throughout the surrounding area, no tickets are required, other than maybe a parking fee.  Since the Space Center is not far from the beach, you might want to rent a boat and watch the launch from the water.\n\nOn a clear day, a shuttle launch can be seen rising into the air over 100 miles away.  The July shuttle launch window is July 1-19.  There is an Delta II rocket launch scheduled for July 21th (at the earliest.)
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The shuttle's navigation computers and life support systems could support a mission to the moon easily.   With the Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO) pad in the cargo bay, there would be enough supplies for a 16-day mission.\n\nHowever, as you point out, the ET (external tank) is discarded on the way to orbit.   If you could some how dock with a fuel tank, the shuttle could easily travel to the moon and back.   4.5 million pounds of thrust is plenty for TLI and to reenter Earth orbit on the way back.\n\n(The shuttle would have to reenter Earth orbit before landing.  The thermal protection systems are designed for a reentry from LEO at 17,500 mph -- not a direct return from the moon at 25,000 mph.)\n\nAnother problem you'd have is landing on the moon.  The shuttle is not equipped for that sort of landing.  So, you'd have to carry a small lander in the cargo bay.\n\nIt's a fun idea, but it isn't really practical.  It would be a lot easier to launch a proper moon mission using 3 or 4 shuttle missions to carry the pieces of the spacecraft to orbit and then dock them together.\n\nBy the way, if you would like to read about a shuttle mission to the moon, read Homer Hickham's book "Back to the Moon".  He is a former shuttle mission planner and trainer.  He wrote "Back to the Moon" about just such a mission.  It's a fun read.  Don't take it seriously.   Hickham also wrote "Rocket Boys" an autobiographical story about his life and how he became a NASA engineer.  It was turned into the movie "October Sky".  (Note that "October Sky" is an anagram of "Rocket Boys".)
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March 4th.\n\nMarch forth.
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It will be on June 11, 2:03 p.m. EDT: \n\nCalled "The Full Strawberry Moon"  Europeans called it the Rose Moon.\n\nYou can  check out dates and timings of all the Full Moons of this year (2006) at the following site:\n\nhttp://www.space.com/spacewatch/060113_moon_names.html\n\nHave a happy MOON time.......