Article: Storms delay second attempt to launch space shuttle New takeoff date not announced but expected to be early Friday

Article: Thunderstorms delay space shuttle launch; NASA will ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 2, 2006 ;     600 words ...CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Thunderstorms forced NASA to call off the launch of space shuttle Discovery on Saturday, a flight already tense over worries that foam could fall from the external fuel tank and endanger the mission ...

Article: NASA MOVES SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH UP BY ONE ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... FLORIDA -- NASA has pushed up by a day its first space shuttle launch attempt of the year. Atlantis and its six astronauts ... of NASA managers at the end of February. The space shuttle mission is scheduled to last 11 days, although ...

NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Scrubbed
Getty Images;  July 1, 2006 ;     222 words ... ... their cars to leave Kennedy Space Center after Space Shuttle Discovery's launch attempt this afternoon was scrubbed due to weather ... be NASA's second shuttle launch since the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster in 2003. (Photo by Matt ...

Article: Space Shuttle Discovery Passes First Test
AP Online;  July 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... flag waves in front of the Space Shuttle Discovery sits on Launch ... NASA began fueling the space shuttle for the first launch attempt since the doomed Columbia ... to return for the second launch attempt. The VIP list was topped ...

Space Shuttle
AP Images;  July 15, 2009 ;     251 words ...Space shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Christopher Cassidy, gives ... Operations and Checkout Building heading to pad 39A to board the space shuttle for yet another launch attempt at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Wednesday ...

Article: Space shuttle Discovery passes first test as NASA ...
AP Worldstream;  July 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... test early Tuesday as NASA began fueling the space shuttle for the first launch attempt since the doomed Columbia flight 2 1/2 ... astronauts planned to return for the second launch attempt. The VIP list was topped by first lady Laura ...

Article: Space shuttle blasts off after month's delay
AP Online;  July 15, 2009 ;     674 words ...Space shuttle Endeavour and seven astronauts are on their way to the ... AP) _ Hoping stormy skies clear in time, NASA fueled space shuttle Endeavour for a sixth launch attempt Wednesday, the eve of the 40th anniversary of the liftoff ...