Only a handful of special guests will...
Only a handful of special guests will be allowed inside Florida’s Kennedy Space Center next Wednesday afternoon to view the launch of the shuttle Discovery on its top-secret military mission, officials said. Discovery’s mission is the first fully classified American manned space flight. The exact launch time is secret to prevent Soviet tracking stations from locking onto the shuttle or its classified payload, which defense sources say is an Air Force “signals intelligence” spy satellite.
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