Weather worries keep shuttle in space an extra day
Posted on: Monday, 8 August 2005, 04:15 CDT
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.
Source: REUTERS
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