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| Image Above: Space shuttle Discovery leaps from its
launch pad Tuesday morning to start STS-120. Image credit: NASA |
The crew of STS-120 is safely in orbit and on their way to the International
Space Station following a flawless liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
in Florida.
The seven astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery are to spend 14 days
in space during the mission.
Objectives for the flight include delivering a new segment called Harmony
to the station, along with new station crew member Dan Tani, KD5DXE. Tani
will stay on the orbiting laboratory and Discovery will bring current
station resident Clayton Anderson KD5PLA back to Earth.
Discovery's crew will also move a tower of solar arrays to its new position
on the orbiting laboratory.
Discovery is scheduled to land at Kennedy on Nov. 6.
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