![]() The shuttle Atlantis was scheduled to launch on June 28, but given the delay with Endeavour, Atlantis' launch date will also slip, Moses said. Īfter this mission, Endeavour's 35th and final spaceflight, NASA plans only one more space shuttle launch. Kelly and the other shuttle Endeavour astronauts will arrive in Florida on May 12 to begin preparing for their launch.Įndeavour's STS-134 mission was originally slated to last 14 days, but NASA has officially extended it to a 16-day voyage to allow the astronauts to complete more get-ahead work on orbit. Giffords had traveled to Florida from her rehabilitation hospital in Houston for the April 29 launch attempt, but it's uncertain whether she'll be able to make the trip back for the next liftoff date on May 16. The shuttle's veteran crew will be led by commander Mark Kelly, whose wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is recovering after being shot in the head in January. The shuttle will also haul up a load of spare supplies for the orbiting laboratory. "We have extremely high confidence that the problem is no longer on the ship," he added.Įndeavour will carry six astronauts to the International Space Station to deliver a new $2 billion astrophysics experiment that will study dark matter and other mysteries of the universe. Nonetheless, the team knows enough for now to commit to a new launch date, Moses said. ![]() ![]() "The cause of that failure to supply power, we're still not exactly sure of." "The failure on launch date was a failure of having power supplied to the heaters," said Mike Moses, chair of the mission management team. ![]() Though mission managers said they had a pretty good handle on the problem, they still haven't isolated the source of the failure to one root cause. ![]()
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