Seven astronauts are officially set to ride NASA’s Discovery orbiter towards the International Space Station (ISS) next week even as engineers tackle glitches with the orbital laboratory. “I think we’re ready to go fly,” Wayne Hale, NASA’s shuttle program manager, told reporters during a press briefing at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. […]
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