NASA Monitors Sensors as Launch Approaches
NASA managers say the agency is prepared to launch Space Shuttle Discovery even if a fuel-sensor glitch reoccurs. Reuters hide caption
NASA managers say the agency is prepared to launch Space Shuttle Discovery even if a fuel-sensor glitch reoccurs.
ReutersNASA has neither found nor fixed the fuel sensor fault that halted the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery two weeks ago. So it's turning to the ultimate test: setting another launch in motion, planned for mid-morning Tuesday.
The Discovery mission will be the first space shuttle flight since the fatal 2003 Columbia accident, in which the crew was killed upon re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
NASA managers say that Tuesday's launch, scheduled for 10:39 a.m. ET, will go ahead even if a fuel-sensor glitch -- which forced the cancellation of Discovery's launch two weeks ago -- is again detected.