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From Space.com:
NASA’s shuttle Discovery and its seven-astronaut crew launched into orbit Tuesday with a thunderous roar on an ambitious mission to add a new orbital room to the International Space Station (ISS).
Commanded be veteran shuttle flyer Pamela Melroy, Discovery’s STS-120 crew rocketed into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center here at 11:38 a.m. EDT (1538 GMT), despite an iffy weather forecast of rain showers and ice build-up on the shuttle’s external fuel tank. Tucked in the orbiter’s payload bay was Harmony—a cylindrical module that will anchor future international laboratories to the space station.
space.com/missionlaunches/071023-sts120-launchday.html
The mission’s commander, Pamela Melroy, is a graduate of Bishop Kearney (Catholic) High School.
NASA’s shuttle Discovery and its seven-astronaut crew launched into orbit Tuesday with a thunderous roar on an ambitious mission to add a new orbital room to the International Space Station (ISS).
Commanded be veteran shuttle flyer Pamela Melroy, Discovery’s STS-120 crew rocketed into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center here at 11:38 a.m. EDT (1538 GMT), despite an iffy weather forecast of rain showers and ice build-up on the shuttle’s external fuel tank. Tucked in the orbiter’s payload bay was Harmony—a cylindrical module that will anchor future international laboratories to the space station.
space.com/missionlaunches/071023-sts120-launchday.html
The mission’s commander, Pamela Melroy, is a graduate of Bishop Kearney (Catholic) High School.
