Updates: NASA inspects Discovery for launch

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida. March 26 -- NASA inspectors were giving the shuttle Discovery a final review Friday before officially setting a launch date, likely for April 5, U.S. officials said.

The 13-day mission is 1 of 4 remaining flights planned to the International Space Station (ISS) previous to the shuttle fleet is retired next year.

Inspectors were to examine a helium isolation valve, ceramic inserts around windows and payload bay doors, Florida Today reported.

In the meantime, New York's Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum has asked NASA for a shuttle when Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis are retired.

"It’ll be a huge boon to New York's economy and a magnet for tourists," Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday.
NASA has said it intends to give the shuttles to museums where the majority people could view them, The New York Daily News reported Friday.

The Intrepid museum is a military and maritime history museum and its collection includes the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, a submarine as well as a Concorde SST jet.

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