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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA managers won't decide until April when to reschedule a space shuttle mission that was postponed after hail damaged the craft, officials said.
Golfball-sized hail left thousands of dings on the foam insulation on the space shuttle Atlantis' fuel tank as it sat on the launch pad last month. Postponing a decision on when to reschedule the launch, which was originally planned for last week, will give technicians more time to assess damage, NASA officials said Wednesday.
"We can get some more analysis done; then we will have enough data to make a good decision," said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations.
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