Discovery Cleared for Flight
Credit: NASA/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on its eighth International Space Station assembly mission this week, after top NASA spaceflight managers decided concerns about the health of its thermal protection system didn’t warrant a delay. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space...
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