Shuttle Discovery making final roll-out

jim3775

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Wed Apr-06-05 11:13 AM
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Shuttle Discovery making final roll-out

Edited on Wed Apr-06-05 11:14 AM by jim3775

Shuttle Discovery is making the final roll-out to the launch platform today starting around noon EDT. It will take 8 hours to make the 4.2 mile journey to launch pad 39B. The lauch window is between May 15 and June 3. If the upcoming tests dont go as well as planned and there needs to be more preperation, the next launch window is in July.

Live streaming video: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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Dudley_DUright

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Wed Apr-06-05 11:47 AM
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1. It would be a lot more exciting if their mission was to go fix the Hubble

instead of wasting more time and money on the useless international space station.

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