Space agency officials said today that the shuttle Discovery is ready to blast off on its five-day mission at 8:07 Monday morning.

Launched at night, this five-day mission carried Department of Defense payloads and other secondary payloads.

During the five-day mission the crew conducted Department of Defense operations.

That was the second flight of the space shuttle, and its planned five-day mission was cut to two days after a fuel cell gave out.

The experiment sent 32 developing chicken embryos aloft in the space shuttle Discovery, which was launched March 13 on a successful five-day mission.

In addition to deploying their military payload successfully, Columbia's crew conducted several on-orbit experiments during the five-day mission.

More than 340 of these business to business matchmaking meetings took place during the five-day mission.

The landing brought to an end a five-day military mission, most details of which were classified.

He flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery last year on a five-day mission.

If they determine it is merely a sensor problem, the craft could complete its five-day mission.