Space shuttle Atlantis launch scrubbed

CAPE CANAVERAL — Today’s scheduled launch of the space shuttle Atlantis has been scrubbed considering of malfunctioning sensors in a fuel tank. NASA hopes to try again tomorrow.

The fuel sensors are improtant considering they would let mission control know whether the space shuttle is running out

of fuel prematurely while launching.

If the shuttle were to run out of fuel during the eight-minute trip into space it could conceiveably cause the space shuttle’s main engines to blow up.

–Curtis Krueger, Times staff writer

Original post by Times Editor

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