Injured Discovery Astronaut Replaced
HOUSTON — NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, who was injured in a Jan. 15 bicycle accident, will be replaced as one of two spacewalkers assigned to shuttle Discovery’s STS-133 mission, the space agency announced Jan. 19. Veteran astronaut Steve Bowen will take Kopra’s place aboard Discovery, which is...
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