Reuters: Science News: Weather delays last flight of space shuttle Endeavour to museum

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Weather delays last flight of space shuttle Endeavour to museum Sep 18th 2012, 01:00 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Shuttle Endeavour embarking on new mission to Los Angeles museum 5:19am EDT U.S.-Russian space crew lands safely in Kazakhstan 1:13am EDT Spacewalking astronauts fix station's power system Wed, Sep 5 2012 Stuck bolt on space station stymies spacewalkers Thu, Aug 30 2012 First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82 Sat, Aug 25 2012 1 of 4. Space shuttle Endeavour lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida June 1, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Joe Skipper MIAMI | Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:00pm EDT MIAMI (Reuters) - The departure of the space shuttle Endeavour on its final flight to a Los Angeles museum has been delayed until Wednesday by bad weather, NASA said. Endeavour, which was retired last year, was scheduled to travel piggyback on top of a specially modified 747 jet, but storms along the planned flight path have pushed back its departure from the Kennedy Space Center until Wednesday. It was the second delay caused by weather in transporting the shuttle, which was originally intended to depart on Monday. NASA said Endeavour is now expected to arrive on Friday in Los Angeles, where it will go on display at the California Science Center on October 30. On its trip, Endeavour is expected make a low pass over the beachside communities surrounding the Kennedy Space Center before heading west. It will make additional flyovers near NASA facilities in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Endeavour was built as a replacement for the shuttle Challenger, which was destroyed in an accident that killed seven astronauts in 1986. Endeavour's lifespan was relatively short by shuttle standards - 25 missions over 20 years, totaling 299 days in space. (Reporting by Kevin Gray; editing by Christopher Wilson) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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