Space shuttle Discovery atop the crawler transporter nears the end of it's 3.4 mile journey to pad 39A to prepare for the next launch at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009. Discovery is scheduled to launch on Feb. 12. (AP Photo/John Raoux)From Yahoo News/Space.com:
NASA has delayed the planned Feb. 12 launch of the space shuttle Discovery by least a week to allow extra time to evaluate vital fuel valves on the spacecraft, agency officials said late Tuesday.
Discovery was slated to launch toward the International Space Station on Feb. 12 to deliver the last set of U.S.-built solar arrays to the orbiting laboratory. The mission is now scheduled to blast off no earlier than Feb. 19 at about 4:41 a.m. EST (0941 GMT), but an official launch target will be determined at a later date.
"By looking at it right now, we think it's about a week delay, but we're not going to put pressure on the team," said John Shannon, NASA's space shuttle program manager, in a briefing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "We'll just let the information drive us."
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