NASA Completes Dress Rehearsal For Final Discovery Launch

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The STS-133 crew and shuttle launch team completed the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test at Kennedy Space Center Oct. 15 with a simulated main engine abort at T-minus 4 sec., encountering no hurdles in the run-up to Discovery’s final liftoff Nov. 1. “I think it went...

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