Shuttle Discovery, Terra in back-to-back scrubs; retries today

NASA missed two space launch opportunities yesterday when, having pushed its communications systems to support back-to-back launches on opposite sides of the U.S., it had to scrub both attempts for unrelated reasons. At Kennedy Space Center, Fla., a time-consuming paper check to ensure...

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