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Discovery Lifts Off

After delaying its initial launch from May to July 13 and then aborting it due to a faulty fuel sensor, Shuttle Discovery finally made its way to space today for its 31st mission from launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center.

Shuttle Discovery bursts off from Florida

Discovery being the first shuttle to be launched since the Colombia Disaster in 2003 seems to be having a major significance in almost all its relational segments as its re-schedule came in suddenly without any considerable improvement in the problem that first halted the mission. Its importance spans from space stations right into the major political arenas for which reason the initial scrub was viewed with skepticism by many high places where and which could have been the very sources of influence for the re-schedule.

The faulty fuel sensor is a backup for another sensor, which in turn is part of a system that should be necessary only in the event of a fuel leak or a similar emergency. This entire backup system was put in place only after the Colombia Disaster when NASA was forced to toughen their standards. However, now that Discovery has been ejected with minus one external fuel tank sensors, it appears that they have passed the logical engineering test.

With Discovery's bursting into space, NASA is now screaming it out loud : "We're back!"

Naz Tuesday, July 26, 2005 | Comments (0)

Discovery Lifts Off

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