Unstable Weather Scrubs Discovery Landing

[Massacure]

Breaking from NASA TV.

Hopefully a link will be up soon.

edit: Found the link:

http://www.space.com/returntoflight/

The space shuttle Discovery will remain in orbit for another day. Unstable weather conditions – persistent low clouds and rain showers near Florida's Kennedy Space Center - forced NASA flight controllers to wave-off both of today’s possible landing opportunities. The alternate landing site at Edwards AFB, California was not activated for landing today.

Discovery will have four landing opportunities available on Tuesday – two each at the Kennedy Space Center and Edwards AFB. The Kennedy Space Center landing opportunities will be at 5:08 a.m. and 6:43 a.m. EDT (0908 and 1043 GMT), while the Edwards AFB opportunities would occur at 8:13 a.m. and 9:48 a.m. EDT (1213 and 1348 GMT).

[jim3775]

1. Forecast for tomorrow:

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/status.html

The forecast for Kennedy calls for just a few clouds at 2,000 feet and 10,000 feet, scattered clouds at 25,000 feet with a slight chance of showers within 30 nautical miles. Winds will be out of 220 degrees at three knots with peaks to five knots, well within NASA's crosswind limits.

At Edwards, the outlook is for few clouds at 10,000 feet, scattered clouds at 25,000 feet and winds from 220 degrees at four knots peaking to seven knots.

White Sands is expecting a slight chance of showers and broken cloud decks at 10,000 and 25,000 feet.