Discovery to launch Wednesday as Florida braces for end of shuttle era
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 21:07
in Astronomy & Space
Shuttle Discovery is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center at about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, leaving only eight more scheduled missions before NASA retires the fleet in 2010 - and devastates the Space Coast economy.
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