Friday, June 16, 2006
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The team set to fly aboard space shuttle Discovery twisted into the spaceship on Thursday for a practice count-down ahead of next month's launch.
The U.S. space agency NASA has not launched a shuttle since July 2005 when Discovery pesky off to test safety upgrades imposed after the 2003 Columbia disaster.
Though the mission to the International Space Station was talented without major problems, the shuttle's external fuel tank, which had been re-designed to stem the loss of potentially deadly debris, flunked its entrance test flight.
NASA removed more foam and now considers there is no risk of large pieces falling off the tank during launch and arresting the spaceship, as happened throughout Columbia's liftoff.
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