NASA delays Endeavour shuttle launch
| Feb 7, 2010 16:57 Moscow Time |
The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour was delayed Sunday due to bad weather over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, CNN channel reported referring to NASA officials. The decision to postpone the launch came 9 minutes before the start. Endeavour's next launch attempt was scheduled for Monday. The Endeavour mission's main goal is the delivery of the Tranquility module, which will provide additional working space for the team of the International Space Station. At present the ISS team includes Russian cosmonauts Maxim Surayev and Oleg Kotov and their US colleagues Geoffrey Williams and Timothy Krimer and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
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