NASA Grants Discovery A Second Extra Day

By Mark Carreau

HOUSTON — NASA’s Mission Management Team approved a second one-day extension of shuttle Discovery’s trouble-free final mission on March 3, while astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) upgraded and repaired U.S. and Russian carbon dioxide removal systems and supervised an altitude-raising maneuver that sets up the departures and arrivals of future Soyuz and shuttle crews ...

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