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Space shuttle Discovery launched successfully Saturday evening but now experts are discussing the debris that fell off the shuttle after the launch.
Discoverys launch was smooth after a clean countdown, but about three minutes into its flight chunks of foam insulation or ice began falling off the fuel tank. Some of the chunks were more than a foot in size.

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Discovery Launch Replays: May. 31 ,2008



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Foam debris from the external tank was recorded  after booster separation.

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Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 p.m. EDT Saturday to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station.
The mission, designated STS-124, is the second of three flights to launch components to complete the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo laboratory. Discovery is carrying Kibo's tour bus-sized Japanese Pressurized Module, or JPM, which will be the station's largest module. The shuttle astronauts will work with the three-member station crew and ground teams around the world to install the JPM and Kibo's robotic arm system.

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Nasa's Discovery shuttle has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a 14-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The shuttle and its crew of seven are delivering the main section of Japan's Kibo science lab but also a new pump to repair the station's toilet.

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Main engine cutoff
External tank separation

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Negative return

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Booster separation
All systems nominal

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The STS 124 mission has successfully launched from the Kennedy space centre.


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