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Aug 3, 2007 9:41 am US/Pacific

NASA Delays Next Week's Shuttle Launch By 1 Day

 CBS News Interactive: Shuttle Era

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (CBS) ― NASA has delayed next week's launch of space shuttle Endeavour by one day because of unexpected work to fix a leak in the crew cabin, officials said Friday.

Liftoff is now set for Wednesday evening.

Engineers installed a new valve Thursday to replace a leaky one in the crew cabin and although the unit tested fine, NASA ran out of time to meet a Tuesday launch, a NASA representative said.

Among the seven-member crew to the international space station is Barbara Morgan, the first schoolteacher-turned-astronaut, who was Christa McAuliffe's backup in 1986.

The shuttle last flew in November 2002.

(© 2007 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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