Monday, December 04, 2006

Shuttle Discovery readies for 12-day mission

**ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY DEC. 3 **Space Shuttle Discovery begins it's journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39b at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canveral Fla. Thursday Nov. 9 2006. Parts of the space station will be powered down during Discovery's visit in early December as astronauts reconnect the space lab's electrical system to a permanent power source.(AP Photo/John Raoux)Several days after space shuttle Discovery arrives at the international space station some of the lights will go out. Some communications with Mission Control will stop. Backup power will be lost.


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