01-May-2008, 05:09 PM
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NASA: Hubble mission slips four to five weeks
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The late August launch of NASA's fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission will be pushed back four to five weeks due to shuttle external tank production delays, a NASA official said today.
Atlantis and seven astronauts had been scheduled to blast off Aug. 28 from Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A, setting sail on a high-profile mission to equip NASA's flagship observatory with powerful new science instruments and new batteries and gyroscopes that will enable the telescope to operate until at least 2013.
"We really cannot make that date with the external tank processing schedule," NASA shuttle program manager John Shannon said during preflight briefings for the planned May 31 launch of Discovery and seven astronauts on a mission to deliver the Japanese Kibo science laboratory module to the International Space Station.
NASA now is aiming to launch the mission in late September or early October, Shannon said.
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