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Shuttle Discovery Landing Delayed

Thursday, September 10, 2009 , Posted by SamSal at 5:06 PM

Due to bad weather landing of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery delayed, transmits Associated Press.

NASA experts decided not to send a shuttle to the strip at Cape Canaveral launch site, as in this area now is torrential rain and strong wind blows.

At the command MCC shuttle while in orbit, he has time for two more attempts at landing in the main landing site, and if the weather does not improve, the Discovery sits on the back lane - Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Recall, Discovery was launched from Baikonur on August 28 in Cape Canaveral, sht.Florida. The spacecraft is delivered to the ISS cargo module Leonardo with different equipment. In addition, astronaut Nicole Stott was replaced by his colleague on the ISS, American Tim Koper, who was at the station from 15 July.

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