Fuel sensor problems also delayed space shuttle Discovery launches in 2005 and earlier this year. The Atlantis launch, which involves a crew of six astronauts, aims to recommence contruction of the ...

NASA has delayed the launch of shuttle Discovery until at least Saturday, postponing its first human space flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster due to a problem with a fuel sensor. "All I can say ...

Cape Canaveral: Technical problems have prompted NASA officials to postpone at least until Saturday the launch of a US space shuttle carrying the long-awaited European Columbus laboratory to the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA plans to tighten its launch rules and send the shuttle Atlantis into space with a European science lab on Sunday, provided a troublesome fuel sensor system is ...