Shuttle Discovery will shoot for launch Thursday

NEWSALERT: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 @ 2359 GMT
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SHUTTLE DISCOVERY WILL SHOOT FOR LAUNCH THURSDAY
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Despite threatening weather, NASA managers Wednesday cleared the shuttle
Discovery for launch Thursday on its 39th and final mission, deciding an
electrical glitch that prompted a 24-hour delay was not a threat to flight
safety. Liftoff was targeted for 3:29:43 p.m. EDT.

 http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/101103mmt/index2.html


LIVE LAUNCH WEBCAST
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Join Miles O'Brien, David Waters and Leroy Chiao for our live webcast from
Kennedy Space Center of Discovery's liftoff starting at 11:00 a.m. EDT
(1500 GMT) on launch day.

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts133/status.html


DELTA 2 ROCKET LAUNCH DELAYED TO THURSDAY NIGHT
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A second stage battery low voltage reading stopped the Delta 2 rocket's
countdown about 50 seconds before liftoff Tuesday from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, California. After three consecutive days of trying to launch,
officials will give team a chance to rest Wednesday before making the next
launch attempt on Thursday night at 7:20 p.m. PDT (10:20 p.m. EDT).

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d350/status.html


RUSSIAN MILITARY PAYLOAD LAUNCHED ON SOYUZ ROCKET
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A Soyuz rocket and Fregat upper stage successfully launched a Russian
military communications satellite Tuesday to a high-altitude orbit above
Earth.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1011/02soyuz/


CHINA SETS NEW RECORD FOR ANNUAL LAUNCH ACTIVITY
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Sunday's launch of a navigation satellite was the 12th flight of a Long
March rocket in 2010, eclipsing the record for most Chinese space missions
in a single year.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1011/01china/

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