NASA: All looking good for Thursday shuttle launch (AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is just digit days out from sending expanse shuttle Discovery on its final travel after a nearly four-month delay.
Officials said Tuesday the countdown is going well. What's more, there's an 80 proportionality quantity of good flying weather Thursday. Launch instance is 4:50 p.m.
This module be the 39th flight for NASA's oldest surviving shuttle. Discovery first rocketed into itinerary in 1984. This time, Discovery is headed back to the International Space Station. It module drop off a mechanism robot as substantially as an oversize closet full of expanse station supplies.
Discovery should have been finished flying by now. Fuel cell cracks, however, caused the four-month delay. NASA test administrator Steve Payne says the repaired cell is stronger than ever.
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