HTTP:: Shuttle to Return Home Today
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After its landing in California on September 12th, the space shuttle Discovery remained there until last week, undergoing preparations for its return flight to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida. The spacecraft was forced to land at the Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, because significant thunderstorms were battering its usual landing strip. Now, mounted atop its Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), Discovery is finally heading home and is scheduled to land at the Center later this afternoon, NASA says on its official website.The two craft departed from the EAFB at 9:20 am (1320 GMT) yesterday (Sunday, September 20th), and already performed two refueling stops along the way, at the Rick Husband International Airport, in Amarillo, Texas, and at the Ft. Worth Naval Air Station, in Texas. With a bit of luck, flight planners say, the shuttle will be home today. However, sketchy atmospheric conditions may thwart controllers' plans of conducting the last stage of t!
he flight in a single go. The craft is currently at the Barksdale Air Force Base (BAFB), in Shreveport, Louisiana.Discovery is mounted atop NASA's C-9 “pathfinder†support aircraft, which is especially equipped to carry the shuttles. This is not the first time it has been used. Earlier this year, Atlantis also l...
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