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Next Space Shuttle launch - March - 2005

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20-02-2004 9:08pm

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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D80QS4500.html

NASA's senior spaceflight officials decided Thursday evening to push back the next launch to March 2005 because of lingering work and engineering concerns, and picked Discovery to be first up.

The space agency had been aiming for a fall 2004 launch

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The shuttle fleet has been grounded and space station construction on hold since Columbia shattered over Texas on Feb. 1, 2003.

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As many as 35 more shuttle missions are needed to finish building the space station.

NASA recently canceled one last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope and consigned it to an early death because a shuttle could not fly from Hubble to the space station in an emergency. The space agency decided it was not worth risking astronauts' lives to service the telescope.

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