Discovery Readies For Second Launch Attempt

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — With the weather looking clear, NASA began loading space shuttle Discovery’s external tank with 535,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen at Launch Pad 39A here late Aug. 25, in anticipation of a second attempt to launch STS-128 early the next morning. The...

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