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NASA gives up first landing opportunity for Discovery
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-08-09 15:20
NASA on early Tuesday gave up the first landing opportunity at at 5:07 a.m.
EDT (0907 GMT) for the space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center here,
citing unfavorable weather conditions.
The second landing opportunity is at 6:43 a.m. EDT (1043 GMT) at the Kennedy
Space Center.
If the weather did not improve for the second opportunity, flight controllers
planned to land the shuttle in California, where forecast says weather
conditions are better with clear sky and light winds.
Discovery also has two landing opportunities at 8:12 a.m. EDT (1212 GMT) and
9:47 a.m. EDT (1347 GMT) at Edwards Air Force Base in California, the primary
backup site.
The shuttle could land at the secondary backup site, the White Sands Test
Facility in New Mexico, at 6:39 a.m. EDT (1039 GMT) or 8:13 a.m. EDT (1213
GMT).
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