NASA has delayed the rollout of shuttle Discovery to its Kennedy Space Center launch pad by a day because of the threat or rain and lightning Tuesday morning. Discovery is now scheduled to depart the Vehicle Assembly Building at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday atop an eight-tracked crawler-transporter.
An extended stretch of cold weather already pushed the mission's launch date back by about two weeks, to April 5, because Discovery couldn't move from its hangar into the VAB.
It was not immediately clear if the one-day delay in the rollout to launch pad 39A would have any impact on the launch schedule.
IMAGE: In a high bay in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 23, space shuttle Discovery is in position beside its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters and ready to be released from the lifting device. Next, Discovery was attached to the tank and boosters completing the STS-131 shuttle stack. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder
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oh thats a smart thing to do because of all of the stuff that could go wrong with the shuttle.
Wow.
Bogus.
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