Why was the landing of Space shuttle delayed today?”
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew will stay in space another day after bad weather prevented them from landing Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA Flight Director Norm Knight and the entry team will evaluate weather conditions at Kennedy before permitting Atlantis and its crew to land at 9:16 a.m. Saturday. A second Kennedy landing opportunity is at 10:54 a.m. The shuttle also has landing opportunities at Edwards Air Force Base in California at 10:46 a.m. and 12:24 p.m. If Atlantis does not land Saturday, there are multiple landing opportunities Sunday at Kennedy, Edwards, or White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. The Kennedy news center will open for landing activities. For recorded updated information about landing and news center hours, call 321-867-2525. If the landing is diverted to Edwards, reporters should call the Dryden public affairs office at 661-276-3449. Dryden has limited facilities available for use by previously accredited j
Thunderstorms and high winds forced NASA to abandon a first attempt to land the space shuttle Discovery, which earlier dodged debris as it prepared for a high-speed descent to Earth. A second attempt to land Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center, near Orlando in Florida, is scheduled for 0605 IST today, although NASA said conditions were not expected to improve in time. Further bids to bring Discovery home are pencilled in for later today and Edwards Air Force Base in California is ready to become an alternative landing site if required, the US space agency said.
