NASA Unsure Where Shuttle Will Land

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – Mission Control told space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts Friday that showers at Kennedy Space Center were going to be too unpredictable for a landing at their first opportunity.

The first chance to land was to have been at 3:56 p.m. EST at the Florida site. The next opportunities are at Kennedy, Edwards Air Force Base in California and in White Sands, N.M., starting around 5:30 p.m. EST.

Astronaut Ken Ham in Mission Control told the astronauts to hold off on drinking fluids, one of the last steps the astronauts take before landing to help them adjust to gravity.

“The new word for Florida is ‘unstable.’ The chance has been struck,” Mr. Ham told the astronauts.


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