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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Discovery Mission Will Make or Break Shuttle's Future


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NASA's space shuttle Discovery rolls toward the launching pad at Florida's Kennedy Space Center for its scheduled launch on July 1, 2006. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has said that a major accident on the upcoming Discovery mission would likely spell an end to the space shuttle program.

Photograph courtesy NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis