NASA: Space Shuttle Discovery is ready to fly
June 11th, 2006 Leave a comment Visited 52 times, 1 so far today
NASA: Space Shuttle Discovery is ready to fly
US Space Agency NASA has claimed that after massive safety upgrades and design changes, the Space Shuttle Discovery is finally ready to fly on its latest mission to space.
NASA has installed a new redesigned fuel tank on the shuttle and added some new sensors and windows to make the launch and the mission more secure. However, they added that there are still engineering questions to resolve and some risks are still there.
Space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale spoke to the media personals: “We are ready to go into what I think will be a rapid succession of flights in the next few months.†Discovery is due to fly on its mission sometime next month in a window that opens July 1 and closes July 19.
NASA is claiming that this next flight would mark the “the largest aerodynamic change to this vehicle that has been made since we started flying 25 years ago.” A lot has changed since the Columbia disaster which killed the entire crew onboard and NASA has taken massive initiatives to make sure that every Space Shuttle flight to space is as secure as it can be.
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June 12th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
Hi there,
My name is Karen Shacham and I work with CNN Pipeline in Atlanta.
I thought you might be interested to know that the crew of the next shuttle mission will arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, landing their T-34 jets at 5:45PM ET LIVE on CNN Pipeline.
CNN Pipeline is an online, commercial-free multiple live-news feed. It showcases four simultaneous news feeds from around the world and an On Demand function that allows you to select from a variety of news stories.
You can check it out at http://www.cnn.com by clicking the CNN Pipeline link to get a two week free trial.
Thanks a lot,
Karen