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There was no word on how long it would take to ready Discovery again for the test, but launch control center commentator Hugh Harris said "tentatively we're going for a 48-hour recycle." That would mean an attempt tomorrow...
...another problem," said NASA administrator James Fletcher. "It's a good thing it happened on an FRF and not on a launch," FRF stands for Flight Readiness Firing, the official name of yesterday's test...
Harris said that immediately after the shutdown, the launch team remotely began to make the vehicle safe as it sat on the pad, its tank loaded with 385,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen...
...mission is scheduled for late September, but even before yesterday many officials believed the launch would slip into October because of earlier delays in the engine test and an unresolved gas leak in a steering engine system that is separate from the main engines...
...Launch director Bob Sieck said Wednesday that a one-day delay in the firing test would move back the launch...