Discovery To Miss Early February Launch Window

By Mark Carreau mark.carreau@gmail.com
HOUSTON

Without setting a new launch date, shuttle program managers agreed Jan. 6 that ongoing troubleshooting of shuttle Discovery’s external tank (ET) cracks will not be complete in time for an early February launch.

The 11-day assembly mission to the International Space Station has been on hold since a Nov. 5 scrub because of eight small cracks found in five of the ET’s 108 ...

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