CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Discovery stands ready, weather willing, toferry the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope into orbit today.
Officials at the Kennedy Space Center expressed confidenceMonday of a liftoff on schedule at 7:31 a.m. (Chicago time). Butthere was little of the excitement of two weeks ago, when hundreds ofastronomers gathered only to see the launch scrubbed with fourminutes to go because of a faulty auxiliary power unit.
"Here we are once again," said William Lenoir, head of theNational Aeronautics and Space Administration's space flight program.The …
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