Discovery shuttle faces three-week delay

Shuttle Discovery space mission was again delayed due to a fuel spill last one.
After 26 years of service, a car museum, the International Space Station (ISS) is a retired before the last flight.
Frustrated NASA technical problems and bad weather, has struggled all week to get Discovery.
Nasa Discovery hydrogen to escape through the remedies do not hold back in the bottom half, fueling find a place.
Able to give the business a long time leak, fix 30 November, plans to start date.
NASA to launch window ends Monday alone in this, run out of time.
orbiting sun angles to create a powerful platform for use in the heating-and-half to three weeks following a negative period
Commodore leader
American politicians should be reconfirmed probes ways to give the new era of space vehicles, and a bow takes a significant turn in this final.
the discovery of the oldest ships. First, the implementation in 1984, but in the process, raised about 230 thousand million, completed 38 missions. His latest mission commander Steve Lindsey, Discovery said that probably the most important remaining three space shuttles was.
"After this test, the mission" to return to flight "of all the fog, of course, a lot of Challenger and Columbia accidents as well as a historical tool," he said.
"This is the Hubble (and) the number of aircraft were developed in the fleet leader in terms of space Shuttle -. This is a good time with him was completed, significant orbit nearly a year will flow"
Discovery returned to Endeavour was to have a specific deadline of February next year.
Atlantis, will fly in June approved a budget. In addition, the decade of Russian Soyuz rockets into American astronaut to launch U.S. commercial space systems will be used to get a number in the center.
Technical problems
Hydrogen fuel gas discharge operation flamability much potential that is considered critical of NASA managers were grouped in two hours
Leak on the ground umbilical carrier plate, where the external tank and the fire, the discovery of a flare stack and the hydrogen vented pipe to make a special point at 18cm is hiding there.
"Safety first site we will," NASA associate administrator for Space Operations Bill Gerstenmaier said.
"This is the target hardware to resolve before we fly and we will take the time to understand the correct and error correction, it is very important before the start."
the discovery of six astronauts had to board the space plane still leak was discovered.
ship does not stand up, together with much needed supplies and replacement parts are delivered to a warehouse attached to the ISP.