The early Saturday morning scrub of the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour due to a hydrogen gas leak complicates matters relating to the Florida launch range for the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral over he next several days.The Endeavour faces a minimum four-day turn around time to achieve the launch window and may have to actually delay the launch from Kennedy Space Center to June 20 due to the planned June 17 launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Launch Complex 41.
Space Shuttle mission managers have so serious decisions to make Sunday afternoon as continued space shuttle launch delays caused by technical problems or incelment weather could delay an already busy space shuttle launch schedule. Much delay could push the shuttle program into a new fiscal year with a resulting NASA budget problem.
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