Atlantis and its crew are scheduled to launch at 2:20 p.m. EDT on 14 May 2010 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. During the 12-day flight, Atlantis and six astronauts will fly to the International Space Station, leaving behind a Russian Mini Research Module, a set of batteries for the station's truss and dish antenna, along with other replacement parts. See below video for more mission highlights.

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This is the live, ongoing coverage of STS-132 to the ISS flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis.

NASA astronaut Ken Ham will command an all-veteran flight crew: Pilot Tony Antonelli, and Mission Specialists Michael Good, Garrett Reisman, Piers Sellers and Steve Bowen.

Atlantis will add another first to its impressive roster of accomplishments when it becomes the first space shuttle to carry a Russian-built module to the International Space Station. The orbiting laboratory has several Russian components now, but they were launched on Russian rockets.

The Mini Research Module-1, named "Rassvet," or dawn, is about 20 feet long and weighs about 11,000 pounds. It has been packed with about one and a half tons of supplies for the International Space Station. Like the other pressurized sections of the station, the MRM-1 is a cylinder. It will be connected to a port on the Zarya module and then used as a docking hub for Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Station crew members will move the supplies out of MRM-1, then use the inside of the module for research experiments.

The MRM-1 also carries another cylinder on its hull, an airlock destined for a Russian science module scheduled to launch to the station in 2012. When that arrives, the airlock outside the "Rassvet" will be moved to its permanent home.

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