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Nighttime Blast off for Space Shuttle

Following postponement of the earlier launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery days ago due to local cloudy conditions, the seven member astronaut crew of STS mission 116 blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 8:47 p.m. EST Saturday night December ...

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STS-121 Discovery Launch

STS-121 Discovery Launch

Space Shuttle Discovery launch – mission STS-121 – was the third launch attempt in four days after previous ones were scrubbed due to weather concerns. Liftoff was on-time at 2:38 p.m. EDT on July 4th, 2006. The Orbital Insertion Altitude ...

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