Saturday, August 06, 2005

Update on Discovery


According to the latest status report from NASA--






"Discovery is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at 2:24 a.m. CDT Saturday. Landing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled for 3:46 a.m. CDT Monday."
This of course was is the original time that Discovery was supposed to come home. When the orbiter was first sent into space, the return date was set for August 8th, but their stay was extended becuase of extra space walks that were needed to repair the gap filler inbetween the heat shield tiles. After the walk was completed NASA "un-extended" their stay and set the date back to August 8th.

Well enough for tonight, more to come tomorrow and the days after!

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