(msn.com) With plans for an extra day docked to the space station now receiving official blessing, astronauts and ground specialists are developing plans on how best to exploit the time. New tasks on that day, and possibly on the third planned space walk, have been necessitated by the startling debris losses during the shuttle’s launch.

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It was nice to see the shuttle return to flight. I got to see the launch on HDNet on a Pioneer Elite Plasma. Pretty Cool.

(msn.com) Space shuttle Discovery lifted off Tuesday, opening a new chapter in space history more than two years after the Columbia tragedy grounded NASA’s shuttle fleet.

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