Discovery Crew in Place for Wednesday Launch
From Times Wire Reports
Shuttle Discovery’s seven astronauts flew into the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral as NASA prepared to start the countdown for its first shuttle mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
The space agency has scheduled Discovery’s liftoff for Wednesday.
“It’s been 2 1/2 years since a crew has stood here before you,” mission specialist Andrew Thomas, 53, said shortly after the crew’s plane touched down. “That’s way too long, and it is definitely time that we went back to flight and back to space.”
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