NASA again postponed the space shuttle Discovery launch on Wednesday for the second time and will most likely make another attempt on August 28th to begin the mission to the International Space Station.
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The liftoff had been scheduled to take place at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 1:10am EDT. The launch was scrubbed after a fuel valve inside the shuttle had become stuck, NASA said.
The new window of opportunity for the Discovery launch is between August 28 and August 30, Mike Moses, NASA mission management team chairman, said in a press conference.
“Mid-October would be what we’d be looking at if we don’t make this window,” Moses said.
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