The Space Shuttle Discovery blasted off with success with a 1978 Windsor High School graduate, Doug Wheelock, riding along.

The primary objectives of the flight are to:

• deliver and install Node 2 to Node 1 Port Common Berthring Mechanism (CBM)

• rotate a single International Sapce Station (ISS) crewmember

• transfer mandatory water quantities and critical supplies

• relocate P6 (Solar Array Wings)

• a transfer of failed parts (SASA Unit and Baseboard Signal Process)

Colonel Wheelock's job for this mission will be to conduct the EVA (Extravehicular Activity) operations and robotics operations during the mission's 3 scheduled space walks.

For more information about the Space Launch, go to:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html