NASA delays Discovery launch with one week

Posted on Thursday, April 21 2005 @ 0:43 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

It's now official that NASA has pushed back the launch date of space shuttle Discovery with one week to May 22.

“The May 15 launch date was just a target and we always knew that we would have to revisit it,” Parsons said, adding that the shuttle will be launched when it is ready and not on a deadline.

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