Monday, June 12, 2006
BEIJING, June 12 -- U.S. Space Agency NASA has maintain that after huge safety upgrades and design changes, the space shuttle Discovery is finally prepared to fly on its latest mission.
NASA has installed a new predestined fuel tank on the shuttle and added some new sensors and windows to make the launch and the assignment more secure. However, it additional that there are still engineering questions to resolve and some risks are still there.
Space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale spoke to the media personals: "We are ready to go into what I think will be a rapid succession of flights in the next few months."
Discovery is due to fly on its mission a little bit next month in a window that opens July 1 and closes July 20.
NASA is claiming that this next flight would mark "the largest aerodynamic change to this vehicle that has been made since we started flying 25 years ago." A lot has distorted since the Columbia disaster which killed the entire crew onboard and NASA has taken huge initiatives to make sure that every Space Shuttle flight to space is as safe as it can be.
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