NASA Sends Shuttle Atlantis Back To Hangar

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA pulled space shuttle Atlantis
off the launch pad and sent it back to the hangar to await a trip
to the Hubble Space Telescope next year.
Atlantis was originally scheduled to blast off this month on a
mission to make various repairs and upgrade the telescope. But the
Hubble broke down three weeks ago and stopped sending data for its
space pictures, forcing NASA to regroup and delay its mission until
February at the earliest.
Now astronauts will need time to train for a telescope repair
they hadn't planned on.
Atlantis' return to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Monday
marks the 18th time in 25 years that NASA has had to pull a
launch-ready spacecraft off the pad.

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