NASA Extends Its Shuttle Countdown

The end of the space shuttle era will end a little later. NASA announced Thursday that the launching of the last space shuttle flight was now intended for early next year. With two flights remaining, the shuttles had been scheduled to be retired by September. But the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which was to be taken to the International Space Station next month, ran into technical difficulties, pushing that mission to late November. That flight has now been further pushed back, to Feb. 26, 2011. More

(Source: New York Times - Jul 3)