Not only has Florida's active weather been a plague to space shuttle launches throughout the program, it has disrupted planned landings, as well. Storms threaten to delay the return of Discovery earliy this evening, yet again showing that while flying in space is extremely dangerous, many of the variables that are beyond NASA's ability to counter are in Earth's atmosphere, and they make launch and landing the most dangerous parts of any mission. Indeed, NASA has never lost a manned mission in space; all the tragedies have occurred within the atmosphere.
The weather outlook for Florida doesn't improve this weekend, so Discovery may end up returning to California, or even New Mexico.
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