Shuttle loses March-April window
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The US space agency has pushed back the return to flight of the space shuttles until May at the earliest because of hurricane disruption.
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Disruptions caused by three powerful hurricanes have cost NASA at least a week in its effort to rebound from the Columbia accident with a March shuttle launching, members of an oversight task force said Thursday.
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The next effort to launch the space shuttle Atlantis could come as early as Jan. 24, but will probably slip into February as engineers test and repair a suspect fuel sensor connector, a NASA official said.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - For the fourth time in two weeks, NASA nixed the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, this time for a faulty fuel tank sensor - the same glitch that has thwarted two other missions.  A fifth liftoff attempt will be made at 11:15 a.m.
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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.
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NASA will not be able  to launch the next space shuttle mission in March as planned  because the shuttle Atlantis sustained damage from a ferocious  hail storm, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.
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The first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy has been pushed back by NASA because hurricane damage and implementation of new safety measures made a spring 2005 launch "no longer achievable."    March or April had been the tentative date selected by NASA's spaceflight council, which announced the delay Friday.    The council, in Houston to discuss the Oct...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Bad weather forced NASA on Thursday to delay bringing space shuttle Atlantis back to Earth at least until Friday, the U.S. space agency said.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA postponed the return of Atlantis for at least a day and examined the shuttle for damage that could prevent it from making the journey home after a mysterious object apparently fell off the ship in orbit Tuesday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Damage to the space shuttle Atlantis in a ferocious hail storm means NASA will not be able to launch the next shuttle mission in March as planned, the U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.
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Nasa today postponed next month's launch of space shuttle Atlantis after a hailstorm left hundreds of small dents on the spacecraft's external fuel tank.   The launch, which had been set for March 15, was pushed back until at least late April to give Nasa time to make repairs.
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Atlantis launch plagued by delays    WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Last-minute glitches continued to plague NASA's space shuttle Atlantis after an errant fuel tank sensor prevented the orbiter and its six-astronaut crew from heading for the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday.
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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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HOUSTON Oct. 2, 2004 - The first shuttle flight since the Columbia tragedy has been pushed back by NASA because hurricane damage and implementation of new safety measures made a spring 2005 launch &quot;no longer achievable.
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After three delays last week due to foul weather, the launch of space shuttle Atlantis on an 11-day mission has once again been delayed for 24 hours, this time due to a technical glitch, NASA has revealed.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press writer  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  NASA postponed the return of Atlantis for at least a day and examined the shuttle for damage that could prevent it from making the journey home after a mysterious object apparently fell off the ship in orbit Tuesday.
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Nasa says work on the Atlantis shuttle's fuel sensors will push back the launch of the Columbus lab to perhaps  February.