Approaching cold front may stall NASA launch plans
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - A cold front that spawned killer tornadoes in the southeastern United States is heading to Florida where it may stall NASA's plans to launch its first space shuttle mission of the year on Thursday, officials said on Wednesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -NASA on Tuesday postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hail storm left hundreds of small dents on  the spacecraft's external fuel tank and on a wing.
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Cold and cloudy weather has threatened to scuttle a planned blastoff for the space shuttle Discovery, two days after it was called off at the last minute due to low-flying clouds.
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The launch of the space shuttle Discovery could be delayed after a chunk of ice was discovered on its fuel tank, just two hours before today's scheduled lift-off.
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Space shuttle Discovery  remained on track for a Thursday night liftoff though NASA was  beginning to have some misgivings about an approaching cold  front, officials said on Tuesday.
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The US military may have to delay its shootdown of an out-of-control spy satellite planned for Wednesday due to bad weather, a senior military official said.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA skipped a first opportunity on Thursday to bring the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis back to Earth because of bad weather in Florida, but the space agency could make another attempt later in the day.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Gusting winds and the pulsating exhaust plumes from the Phoenix spacecraft's landing engines could complicate NASA's efforts to sample frozen soil from the surface of Mars, according to University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Nilton Renno.Set to launch Aug.
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Five NASA probes will have to wait at least one more day to begin hunting for the source of dynamic auroras after high winds above their launch site prevented a planned Friday liftoff.
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The battering that the hurricanes of the last month has inflicted on NASA centers could strain an already tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, but it is too early to tell how badly, experts said Thursday.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Low clouds forced NASA to delay the launch of space shuttle Discovery Thursday night, and strong winds could delay another attempt for a day or two.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The weather outlook for NASA's Tuesday launch of the shuttle Discovery has dipped slightly, with an increased risk of rain showers and thick clouds preventing the planned space shot.
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A leaking hydraulic seal on the space shuttle Discovery&#39;s right main-gear strut could delay the launch of the shuttle to the International Space Station set for October 23, NASA said Tuesday.
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A weather front that triggered deadly tornadoes in several southern US states could delay the scheduled lift-off of the Atlantis space shuttle, NASA experts said Wednesday.
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Or, why the UK will never launch spaceships The wrong kind of cloud (too low) over Florida has prompted NASA's shuttle mission managers to postpone the next launch until Saturday. It was due to blast off yesterday, but the bad weather meant the launch could not go ahead.â¦
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NASA wrestled with two late-breaking technical concerns which showed up Tuesday two days before the launch of space shuttle Discovery, but managers weren't sure if they could delay the start of the mission.
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Despite weather concerns and a small chunk of ice that threatened to delay the beginning of the shuttle Discoveryâs mission, everything seemed to fall into place.