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Them basically of having a reckless environment dangerous to its employees. meanwhile, despite the three shows today and whack to the main pool tomorrow. >> phil keating in florida, thanks. seven years ago nasa launched a space craft to study mercury. closest planet to the sun. sent back the first photo from orbit. this is the surface of mercury. a planet that lies more than 60 million miles from earth. they sent us a picture from there, good grief. for some perspective here that white crater in the upper portion of the photo is about 50 miles across they tell us. i don't know how they know th...

Falling foam is said to have led to the shuttle "discovery" over texas it happened long enough into the flight that it shouldn't be a problem at all. >> it's probably a piece of foam about maybe 8 by 10 inches that comes off well after the area of concern from an impact of the orbiter standpoint. >> they will still carefully check for shuttle damage during long career, "discovery" has lifted to space the hubble space telescope into orbit and space craft that carried astronaut john glenn when he returned to space in 199. this time "discovery's" mission involves carrying a compartment for suppli...

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Than any other space craft in the history of human kind on this planet. this will be the 39th launch for discovery. it has flown 143 miles before now, 246 crew members have the honor of claiming they were actually on board "discovery" on a mission. it has spent 351 days in orbit, nearly a full year if you stack them all together. and the times it has orbited the earth 5628, enough to make your head spin, shep. >> shepard: i will say phil keating at ksc coming up during "your world." it can replace those athletes with robots, of course. you go, japan. details next. are you receiving a payout fr...

Key components here on giving a go or no go for launch. they were giving a no-go from about 4:30 on because they had a major computer glitch. it wasn't rocket science that was at issue. it was computer science. and the it guys they have got the glitch resolved. all systems are go. everyone is on for this launch, which is now scheduled to take off in four minutes and 26 seconds from now. this will be the 39th launch for the space shuttle "discovery." it is the work horse for nasa. really for the world. no other space craft has traveled as much as this has into space. just some stats, the little...