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China Daily | Updated: 2009-03-16 07:38
Shuttle readies for launch
NASA was to break with protocol and try to launch the space shuttle Discovery last night even though it had yet to uncover the cause of a hydrogen leak that delayed its mission last week, officials said.
On Saturday the US space agency re-entered a launch configuration, scheduling Discovery for a blast-off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station at 7:43 pm yesterday.
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