KSC-00PD-0040 - STS-92 Launch 


KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In a perfect on-time launch at 7:17
p.m. EDT, Space Shuttle Discovery leaps free of Earth as its solid
rocket boosters hurl it into the night sky. The launch of mission
STS-92 carries a crew of seven on a construction flight to the
International Space Station. Discovery also carries a payload that
includes the Integrated Truss Structure Z-1, first of 10 trusses that
will form the backbone of the Space Station, and the third Pressurized
Mating Adapter that will provide a Shuttle docking port for solar
array installation on the sixth Station flight and Lab installation on
the seventh Station flight.  Discovery's landing is expected Oct. 22
at 2:10 p.m. EDT.

 
                                               10/11/2000