After months of delays, NASA announced this week that the space shuttle Discovery is finally ready to take off on its last-ever mission. The shuttle launch, which was originally scheduled for November 1st, has been pushed back a number of times for a number of reasons, including weather, electric problems, and, most recently, a number of cracks discovered on the vessel’s fuel tank.
“It’s been a difficult problem for us because it wasn’t easily understood,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, an associate administrator for the organization, speaking of the latter problem.
As of the end of the year, the mission was scheduled for February 3rd. It has since been pushed back to the 24th of that month. Space shuttle program manager John Shannon added, “I am very confident that we’ve finally got it figured out and we’ve got a fix that’s easy to implement and we’ll be 100 percent.”
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