New Troubleshooting Pushes Discovery Launch To February

NASA will not launch the space shuttle Discovery on its final trip to orbit until Feb. 3, 2011, at the earliest, after deciding to carry out more testing in pursuit of the elusive root cause of cracks in the orbiter’s external fuel tank. The decision by Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate...

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