Discovery and its crew are scheduled to touch down at NASA’s Florida spaceport early Saturday afternoon. Favorable weather is expected. The seven astronauts are winding up a 13-day mission that was highlighted by the successful installation and unfurling of the space station’s last pair of solar wings. The $300 million addition brought the orbiting...
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US Space tourist to create history
A Russian Soyuz rocket is to blast off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome to bring a three-member crew to the International Space Station (ISS). Among them is US billionaire Charles Simonyi, aged 60, who is the first space tourist to make the trip twice. The software tycoon, who paid $35m (£24m) for the trip, will...
