The 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with shuttle Discovery on top has departed Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, Louisiana and is now heading toward KSC. The SCA took off from Barksdale at about 9:40 a.m. EDT.

Without any weather delays it is about a two-hour and 45 minute flight to Kennedy. The earliest Discovery would arrive at KSC is about 12:30 p.m. But the team is going to have to fly around a line of showers over central Louisiana first and then see whether storms currently around KSC will permit a landing. If weather is not cooperative at KSC, Discovery could divert to MacDill in Tampa.

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