Baltimorean Robert Curbeam Jr. is waiting at the Kennedy Space Center this morning to see if the weather will let him return to space.

Curbeam, a veteran of two spaceflights, is part of shuttle mission 116. The mission?s objectives include delivering a replacement astronaut, rewiring the space station and installing a new structural truss to hold two new solar panels.

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