Discovery is scheduled to launch this morning. I’m watching preparations on NASA-TV right now. Here’s a random collection of Space Shuttle linkage: Pamela Melroy, who was a pilot on Discovery’s October 2000 flight, was born in Palo Alto (near where I live now), went to Wellesley College (my alma mater; here’s their press release and her 1998 commencement address), and her husband is from my hometown. Neat! Nabbed from Lake Effect, here’s a super photo of Columbia being ferried back to Florida. And lastly, I’m bummed that the shuttle flight that was penciled in for August has been removed. We were thinking just maybe if it was right after the wedding, we could spend our honeymoon in Florida, hoping to see the sight of a lifetime. But there’s a big gap between July and October in the schedule now.