D-Bone
Dec 5th '06, 11:52 AM
Countdown clocks at the Kennedy Space Center began ticking on Monday toward a Thursday launch of space shuttle Discovery on a high-stakes mission to rewire the International Space Station.
The countdown began at night for Discovery's 9:36 p.m. (2:36 a.m. British time on Friday) launch which will be NASA's first in darkness since before the 2003 Columbia accident.
The U.S. space agency would still prefer launching during daytime, but must resume night liftoffs in order to finish building the space station before the shuttles are retired in four years.
Read More: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-12-05T100901Z_01_B663107_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-SHUTTLE.xml&src=rss
The countdown began at night for Discovery's 9:36 p.m. (2:36 a.m. British time on Friday) launch which will be NASA's first in darkness since before the 2003 Columbia accident.
The U.S. space agency would still prefer launching during daytime, but must resume night liftoffs in order to finish building the space station before the shuttles are retired in four years.
Read More: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-12-05T100901Z_01_B663107_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-SHUTTLE.xml&src=rss