NASA delays space shuttle's return to Earth

Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:16pm EDT

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 28 (Reuters) - NASA officials delayed the landing of space shuttle Discovery on Saturday due to bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA decided to skip its first opportunity to bring Discovery back to Earth at 1:39 p.m. EDT (1739 GMT). The U.S. space agency has one more chance to land the shuttle on Saturday, at 3:14 p.m. EDT (1914 GMT). (Reporting by Irene Klotz, editing by Jim Loney)



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