August 25, Cape Canaveral, FL — NASA’s space shuttle Discovery will launch from Kennedy Space Center at 1:36 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. The mission is for International Space Station resupply and delivery of a new crew member. Here’s an excerpt from the website:
Commanded by veteran astronaut Rick “C.J.” Sturckow, the STS-128 mission crew will deliver refrigerator-sized...