CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA on Thursday cleared the U.S. space shuttle Discovery for landing on Friday, though poor weather and dwindling supplies could force the crew to divert to a rarely used site in New Mexico.
Touchdown remains targeted for 3:56 p.m. EST (2056 GMT) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Meteorologists, however, were predicting low clouds and a chance of rain, which would send landing flight director Norman Knight looking to the west to host Discovery's homecoming.
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