Created: 8/19/2009 10:42:16 PM 
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL.--NASA will try to launch Discovery to the international space station next week, less than a month after the last shuttle mission. Senior officials set Tuesday as the launch date following a two-day flight review that ended Wednesday. Hours later, the seven astronauts flew in from Houston. Discovery and its crew will haul equipment and supplies to the space station, including a new treadmill named after Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert. Earlier this year, the TV comedian tried to get a future space station chamber named after him. NASA chose Tranquility instead -- after the Apollo 11 moon base -- and Colbert had to settle for the treadmill.
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