A potentially dangerous hydrogen fuel leak on the space shuttle Discovery thwarted NASA efforts to launch the spacecraft today, delaying the shuttle’s final liftoff to no earlier than Monday, Nov. 8. Discovery was slated to launch at 3:04 p.m. EDT (1904 GMT) today (Nov. 5) but a leak of flammable liquid hydrogen discovered during fueling [...]
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Atlantis Space Shuttle : NASA Yet to Confirm its Launch in June 2011
October 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Now NASA has only two space shuttle missions planned before it retires its aging orbiter fleet, but US President Barack Obama and Congress recently approved an additional spaceflight by Atlantis. Whether that will actually happen has not been decided yet. Less than two weeks before the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on its [...]
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