Sunday, July 10, 2005

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Discovery crew reports for duty

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Discovery crew reports for duty:
"Discovery crew reports for duty"

By Irene Mona Klotz
at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida

Collins and crew (Nasa)
Eileen Collins will lead her team into space on Wednesday

Sporting fresh haircuts and confident smiles, the seven astronauts who will fly on the Discovery shuttle arrived at Nasa's Florida spaceport on Saturday.

'It's been 2 1/2 years since a crew has stood here before you,' astronaut Andy Thomas told a group of journalists."

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