NASA Shuttle launch Update

Well the problems with the chart are surely being shown,, NASA admitted last week thqat they probably shoulg have grounded the mission - The mission has been externded as they have now also found some hanging debris on the underside of the orbiter.

Let's Hope they can return safely -

"The crew of Discoveryhad to put the craft into a spectacular flip to allow photographs of the heat shield to be taken. Nasa says that billions of dollars of research has failed to find a solution (NASA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) TWO astronauts will take a space walk today to inspect damage to the heat shield of the shuttle Discovery, hours after Nasa admitted that it had made a mistake in allowing their mission to go ahead. Although Discovery safely docked with the International Space Station 122 miles above Earth after a spectacular flip manoeuvre to photograph the shield, plans to relaunch its sister shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour were on indefinite hold after Nasa ordered them to be grounded. In comparison to the euphoria of the seemingly successful launch on Tuesday, an event intended to put America’s space programme back on the rails after the Columbia disaster in 2003, managers were once more in crisis mode. Their three-strong shuttle fleet, they admitted, would never be fully safe to fly. Questions mounted over whether the programme could weather another crisis of confidence after a near-catastrophic problem with the shuttle’s fuel tank was identified, posing exactly the kind of danger that provoked the burn-up of Columbia with the loss of seven lives.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1712931,00.html