NASA Launches Discovery

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 26 - With a stuttering roar that shook the air for miles around, the shuttle Discovery lifted off this morning.
The launching, at 10:39:00 into a startlingly blue sky, is a milestone for NASA, which has struggled for two and a half years to find and fix the problems that caused the loss of the shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven astronauts in February 2003.