Astronauts Arrive for Shuttle Launch
From Times Wire Reports
Seven astronauts arrived in Cape Canaveral for the launch of the space shuttle Columbia on a mission to probe the human brain and nervous system. Columbia, the oldest of NASA’s four space shuttles, is scheduled to blast off from its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center at 11:19 p.m. PDT Thursday. “Hopefully, we’ll have some good weather coming up on Thursday,” Columbia’s commander Richard Searfoss told reporters after arriving at the Florida spaceport. Launch controllers reported no technical problems.
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