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Friday 11 September 2009

Shuttle Discovery landing moved to California desert

 

Shuttle Discovery landing moved to California desert

Space shuttle Discovery will not touch down at Kennedy Space Center to conclude its mission to the International Space Station. Dogged by persistent unfavorable weather conditions at the Florida spaceport has forced NASA to divert landing to the backup site at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

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Bad weather postpones shuttle landing to Friday
The Discovery astronauts were forced to pass up two landing opportunities Thursday because of dynamic, hard-to-predict weather at the Kennedy Space Center, delaying re-entry until Friday in hopes conditions will improve enough to permit a Florida landing.
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