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Discovery: re-entry to occur today in California or New Mexico

Washington, USA – Bad weather conditions still affecting Florida so that NASA opted for another solution

The re-entry stage of the Discovery Space Shuttle scheduled to happen today proves harder and harder. After the postponement announced yesterday due to bad weather conditions in Florida (see for details AVIONEWS), it does not seem that they are destined to improve during the next hours in the American state so that, as intending to carry the spacecraft and its crew back to the Earth by today, NASA...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 125034
Rome, Italy, 08/09/2005 11:57
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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