While NASA's Discovery astronauts prepare for the agency's first shuttle flight in more than two years, another orbiter crew is also training hard for its own launch — now less than three months away.

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News media covering the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-121 will have an opportunity to tour the weather forecast facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 28 ...

Just wanted to point out to everyone interested that Discovery is supposed to launch today at 3:49 pm (EDT), although it appears there might be a problem with a heater in one of the RCS thrusters, so ...