Space Shuttle Discovery Returns to Assembly Building

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 13:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Leaving the launch pad and rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building overnight, the space shuttle Discovery will spend the holidays having the external tank X-rayed as engineers look into the theory that its cracks resulted from stresses accumulated during construction and unleashed during cryogenic fueling.

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