VIDEO! Here is video of NASA Shuttle Launch today. The Shuttle Launch today of Discovery went as planned from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This 2010 Shuttle Discovery crew is comprised of 7 astronauts who won’t return until April 18 shortly before 8:30 am ET.

The Shuttle astronauts will work on the International Space Station for the next two weeks.

The 13 day mission’s tasks will include retrieving a Japanese experiment from the station, spacewalks, and more. This will be the first mission with four women: Stephanie Wilson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazaki, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson.

Below is video from this morning’s launch courtesy of CNN.