Midnight Flight for Discovery
Credit: CARLETON BAILIE
A crew of six NASA astronauts and a Swedish space veteran from the European Space Agency (ESA) was well into the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station late last week after dodging Florida’s fickle summertime weather for an 11:59 p.m. EDT liftoff on Aug. 28. The space shuttle Discovery...
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