HTTP:: Shuttle Discovery Lands in California
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It would seem that NASA's latest missions to the ISS and the Hubble Space Telescope were plagued by bad luck, as far as sticking to their landing/take-off schedules was concerned. The STS-128 flight to the International Space Station, carried out with space shuttle Discovery, was no different. After delays in its launch schedule, it also had troubles descending. The shuttle landing strip, located at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, was covered by rain showers on Friday, which prompted mission controllers to redirect the craft to a landing site in California, Space reports. The spacecraft landed in the Mojave Desert at 8:53 pm EDT (0153 GMT, September 12th), at the Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB). This is the same facility where Atlantis landed after returning from the fifth and final repair mission to the famous Hubble telescope. Discovery's new mission lasted for 14 days, one more than first planned. Early landing windows in Florida could not be !
used, on account of a storm over the KSC. NASA safety protocols state that, under these conditions, shuttles need to find an alternate landing site. Last Thursday and Friday were tense days for shuttle astronauts and mission controllers. For two consecutive days, Discovery was waved off from its landing attempts. However, officials state, ther...
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