NASA officials have announced plans to the begin the countdown
to a July 26 launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. The countdown will
start Saturday, with a test of the External Tank to follow early on
launch day. If all goes well with the test, the countdown will
continue to liftoff at 1039 EDT on Tuesday.
Second to an actual in-flight fire, the threat of such a fire is
one of the most unnerving possibilities a pilot can face. Now, NASA
says it's come up with a new fire alarm system agency officials
believe will greatly reduce the number of false fire alarms on
board aircraft.
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