A conflict in the schedule to the international space station NASA is launch of his next- to -last shuttle mission of the April 19, April 29 delay prompted.
A Russian progress ship is planned, to the station before shuttle arrive, the endeavour from its 14-day mission deployment of particle detector would be Alpha magnetic spectrometer departing for the orbital outpost. The station may not commence business, and NASA had hoped that the Russians can have progress in orbit until to May 1, the shuttle loiter departure.
NASA spokesman Allard bag tells us it is a biology experiment aboard the progress that can wait. Officials tried whether the experiment on the shuttle instead could fly but the logistics for, proved to be too complicated. NASA decided after a meeting on Sunday, was the best way of the puzzles start 10 days to move the endeavour. An official start date is set to flight readiness review on 19 April.
No immediate word on how the US Republic Gabrielle Giffords ability to visit the start would have. The Democrat of Arizona recovered from a gunshot wound through his head. Her husband is the endeavour Commander astronaut Mark Kelly. Kelly has said that when Giffords doctors agree, Space Center travel to the Kennedy, to see the start.
(Endeavour Commander Scott Kelly, left, and crew on a practice launch countdown at the Kennedy Space Center last week.) Credit: NASA)
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