Still no news – but I have now seen this announcement on NASA’s shuttle program home page:
NASA managers are gathered at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today for a final readiness review for the upcoming flight of space shuttle Discovery. The STS-120 mission to the International Space Station is currently targeted for launch on Oct. 23. At the conclusion of today’s review, agency managers will announce an official launch date at a live news conference on NASA TV. The conference is scheduled to begin no earlier than 5 p.m. EDT.
Looks like I need to wait at least for another half hour. I hope the conference will actually start at 5pm, because otherwise it gets too late for me (over here in Germany). After all, I have two more very busy days in front of me …