Thursday, July 16, 2009

Shuttle Flights On Hold Due to New Foam Loss Problem

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida Reuters NASA will suspend flights of its space shuttle fleet until it understands why strips of insulating foam peeled off the fuel tank used by shuttle Endeavour during Wednesday's launch.

We're not worried about this one, but we need to understand what's going on for the next flight, said shuttle program manager John Shannon said on Thursday.NASA has seven more shuttle launches planned to complete construction of the International Space Station. Its next flight is targeted for launch on August 18.