Mission Control calls off a Florida landing after the same unstable weather that forced NASA to postpone a Sept. 10 touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center continues to plague the East Coast site. After passing once on a Florida landing Sept. 11, Discovery is now shooting for Edwards Air Force Base in California.
– NASA officials Sept. 11 scratched the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as a
landing site for the space shuttle Discovery and decided to target California’s
Edwards Air Force Base for an 8:53 p.m. EDT
landing. The same stormy East Coast weather that delayed Discovery’s scheduled
Sept. 10 landing f…