Winds ground Discovery
NZPA-Reuter
Cape Canaveral Swirling winds in the upper atmosphere forced a postponement of yesterday’s lift-off of the shuttle, Discovery, on an eight-day mission to rescue two wayward satellites and place two more in orbit. After a flawless countdown, Discovery seemed ready to take off on the fourteenth shuttle flight into a Florida sky marred only by scattered clouds. Officials at the Kennedy Space Centre reported however, that weather balloons had recorded an erratic wind shear above 6100 m that exceeded the shuttle’s tolerance levels,
The ■ - space agency scrapped the lift-off scheduled for 2.23 a m. yesterday and decided to try again at 1.17 a.m. today. Senator Jake Garn has been chosen by the adminis-
tration to fly on a shuttle mission. Mr Garn, aged 52, is a former Navy pilot and a retired lieutenant-colonel in the United States Air National Guard.
He had logged more than 10,000 hours of flight time, more than any astronaut except Joe Engle, N.A.S.A. said.
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