Discovery blasts off on mission to study Earth's atmosphere

Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., yesterday at 10:41 a.m. EDT carrying six astronauts on an 11-day mission to study the Earth's middle atmosphere with deployment and retrieval of a satellite, and to test equipment for possible future use on the International Space...

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