NASA has delayed the launch of the shuttle Atlantis due to faults with its fuel tank sensors. This was the second time in less than a week.
The failure of one of four fuel gauge-like sensors at the bottom of Atlantis' 15-story external tank during a preflight test prevented the shuttle from an afternoon launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center spaceport.
The mission has now been pushed forward to not earlier than January 2nd 2008.
Commanded by veteran shuttle flyer Stephen Frick, Atlantis's planned 11-day mission will deliver the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory to the ISS and swap out one member of the outpost's three-astronaut crew. At least three spacewalks are planned during the mission to install Columbus and upgrade the ISS.
Aboard Atlantis with Frick will be STS-122 pilot Alan Poindexter, mission specialists Rex Walheim, Leland Melvin, Stanley Love and European Space Agency astronauts Hans Schlegel and Leopold Eyharts.
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The failure of one of four fuel gauge-like sensors at the bottom of Atlantis' 15-story external tank during a preflight test prevented the shuttle from an afternoon launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center spaceport.
The mission has now been pushed forward to not earlier than January 2nd 2008.
Commanded by veteran shuttle flyer Stephen Frick, Atlantis's planned 11-day mission will deliver the European Space Agency's Columbus laboratory to the ISS and swap out one member of the outpost's three-astronaut crew. At least three spacewalks are planned during the mission to install Columbus and upgrade the ISS.
Aboard Atlantis with Frick will be STS-122 pilot Alan Poindexter, mission specialists Rex Walheim, Leland Melvin, Stanley Love and European Space Agency astronauts Hans Schlegel and Leopold Eyharts.
for more information see SPACE.COM
check out J2's WEB PORTAL
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