Sunday, September 20, 2009

Live: Discovery bound for overnight stay in La.

The space shuttle Discovery is headed toward an overnight stop in Louisiana before completing the trip home to Florida on Monday.

Bolted to the back of a modified 747, Discovery left Fort Worth, Tex., around 5:50 p.m. EDT to begin the third leg of its ferry flight from California.

The next stop is Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport. The roughly 225-mile trip should take less than an hour.

Click here to track the flight's progress, or here to track the NASA C-9 pathfinder aircraft flying ahead of Discovery.

NASA will evaluate weather patterns Monday morning, but good forecasts could put the shuttle on track to arrive home at Kennedy Space Center before noon.

Discovery's ferry flight began this morning with a 9:20 a.m. EDT. take-off from Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The first stop was at Rick Husband International Airport in Amarillo, Tex., followed by the stop at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth.

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