• Andrew
• Dec 9,2007
• In: News

Atlantis Launch Delayed until January

After encountering more problems with the space shuttle Atlantis, NASA has decided to delay the launch of the shuttle until January.

Today the launch control team began to load the shuttle’s external fuel-tank with the supercold liquid hydrogen and oxygen. After a half hour the hydrogen sensors were immersed. Soon later all four gauges registered as “wet” passing the first in a round of crucial tests planned for today. Two minutes later though, one of the sensors which faulted during the first launch attempt… faltered.