Weather worries keep shuttle in space an extra day

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Cloudy skies on Monday at
the Kennedy Space Center in Florida forced NASA to postpone the
return to Earth of space shuttle Discovery, prolonging for at
least a day the first shuttle mission since the Columbia
disaster in 2003.

The U.S. space agency will try to land Discovery and its
seven-member crew on Tuesday. The first opportunity will be at
the Florida landing strip at 5:08 a.m. EDT (0908 GMT) with
alternative sites in California and New Mexico available if
Florida’s weather is still unfavorable.