Friday, May 22, 2009

Space Landing Delay

Thunderstorms are making space shuttle Atlantis in orbit an extra day Friday. This is giving the crew unwanted time as they aimed for a landing the next day. They passed up two opportunities to land Friday at Kennedy Space Center., Mission Control thanked the seven astronauts for their patience. We know you looked at it hard. That's what commander Scott Altman said. He also said a little later we're enjoying the view. The astronauts made successful repairs of the Hubble Space Telescope's instruments. They're plan was to spend part of their day off watching DVDs. When they tried to play the movies, they found out that their laptops didn't have the proper software. Engineers on the ground tried to troubleshoot the problem. The astronauts gave up after more than an hour of trying. We'll be home tomorrow said from optimistic astronaut John Grunsfeld that radioed to Earth. He also said we'll go to the movie theater and that will be our consolation. I feel bad that they have to spend another day in space with nothing to do. It was bad luck for them to have thunderstorms. This is all the information I found out about the delay.

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