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[b]Discovery Ferry Flight Preps Complete, Managers Optimistic About a Sunday Departure[/b] Shuttle Discovery and its modified 747, known as a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, are ready to begin the cross-country trip to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as soon as weather across the southeastern United States permits it. Managers are optimistic they'll be able to begin the ferry flight Sunday morning. Teams at Edwards Air Force Base in California finished preparations for the 2,500 mile flight overnight, including fully attaching Discovery to the top of the 747 and moving the piggybacked pair into position to be ready for departure. Weather permitting, the plan is to have Discovery back at Kennedy by Monday.
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