07 February 2010 - 12H02  

US shuttle Endeavour launch delayed
Space shuttle Endeavour stands on launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch of the Endeavour was delayed by 24 hours due to bad weather over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Space shuttle Endeavour stands on launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch of the Endeavour was delayed by 24 hours due to bad weather over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

AFP - The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour was delayed by 24 hours early Sunday due to bad weather over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA officials said.

The delay was caused by a heavy cloud cover over Cape Canaveral, officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.

The Endeavour mission's main goal is the delivery to the International Space Station of the Tranquility module, also known as Node 3, which comes with a multi-window cupola.

The cupola, built for NASA by the European group Thales Alenia Space in their Turin, Italy factory, will allow for panoramic views of Earth, space objects and spacecraft arriving at the ISS, the US space agency said.

With Endeavour's delivery of Tranquility and its attached cupola, the ISS will be 90 percent complete, NASA said.

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