Discovery to land tomorrow
- Monday, August 08 2005 @ 03:55 AM CST
- Contributed by: filbert
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Discovery is waved off in two landing attempts Monday morning. Four landing opportunities on Tuesday, two in Florida, two in California.
Unstable weather—pop-up rain showers and a broken cloud deck at approximately 1,000 feet above the Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility—forced flight controllers to wave-off both of today’s two landing opportunities for the space shuttle Discovery. The landing was originally scheduled for 4:47 a.m. EDT (0847 GMT).The new NASA safety culture emerges again? Maybe . . .