New Discovery Troubleshooting Could Mean Further Launch Delay

HOUSTON — Space shuttle program managers are assessing the need for radius block modification to each of the 108 support stringers on the shuttle Discovery’s external tank (ET), an upgrade that would likely require NASA to push the senior orbiter’s final mission out of an early February launch...

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