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Shuttle schedule besieged by delays

Sensor glitch keeps Atlantis grounded.

CAPE CANAVERAL - The space shuttle Atlantis failed to take off today from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Mission managers are going to make one last try tomorrow morning, but the timing is getting ever tighter for the launch of the third shuttle mission since Columbia broke up on re-entry in 2003.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on September 8, 2006 06:42 PM |

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The space shuttle Atlantis' failure to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida is partly due to bad weather, as well as some technical skills. Human beings still have long way to overcome the universe.

Posted by: jainw | September 11, 2006 09:28 AM

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