Space shuttle Discovery launched after days of delays

2009/08/29 00:18:10 @Reuters: Top News

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Discovery rocketed into orbit early on Saturday, carrying lab equipment, supplies, spare parts, genetically altered mice and a new crewmember to the International Space Station. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=dsr_2a6qnEY:j0URLn7Z-Ds:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=dsr_2a6qnEY:j0URLn7Z-Ds:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=dsr_2a6qnEY:j0URLn7Z-Ds:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?a=dsr_2a6qnEY:j0URLn7Z-Ds:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=dsr_2a6qnEY:j0URLn7Z-Ds:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/dsr_2a6qnEY" height="1" width="1"/
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