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The space shuttle Discovery is orbiting the
Earth after blasting off successfully from Cape Canaveral.
However there are growing worries about something which was seen
falling from the spacecraft soon after the launch. This report
from Jeremy Cooke:
Immediately after Discovery's lift-off
NASA officials were in
jubilant mood, talking of the power and majesty of
the launch and of the mutual
congratulations and back-slapping
at ground control. But even as the shuttle's commander, Eileen
Collins, was reporting from space that this was the smoothest
of her four flights into orbit, engineers at Mission Control
were trying to
assess the significance of an
onboard video which apparently shows debris
falling from Discovery soon after it cleared the tower.
Fresh
in everyone's mind here of course is the Columbia
disaster of 2003 when heat-resistant tiles became damaged during
the launch. The result was a
catastrophic failure on re-entry to Earth's
atmosphere two weeks later, with the loss of all seven
astronauts on board.
It seems clear that NASA genuinely doesn't
know the seriousness of any problem it may face on this current
mission. It may take days to assess any damage. But the hope
here at Cape Canaveral continues to be that this mission will salvage
the agency's battered reputation and help open the
way for a continuation of the space programme and eventually a
manned flight to Mars.
Jeremy Cooke, BBC
lift-off
the expression for when a space craft takes off
in jubilant mood
extrememly happy
mutual congratulations
when everyone says 'well done' to everyone else
back-slapping
a physical way of saying 'well done', either literal or
metaphorical
to assess the significance of
to work out how important something is
an onboard video
a film shot from on the shuttle, not from the ground
debris
pieces of something destroyed by an accident or explosion
Fresh in everyone's mind
Something that is remembered clearly
a catastrophic failure
a huge and instant breakage which causes the destruction of, in
this context, the shuttle Columbia in 2003
salvage the agency's battered reputation
help NASA recover its status (which was damaged following the
destruction of the shuttle Columbia)
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