Space shuttle Endeavour’s delayed launch is set for 12:56 GMT on May 16, more than two weeks late for its final space mission, NASA officials said on Monday.
Engineers were optimistic they could repair the defect in a heater in its hydraulic system that prompted NASA to cancel the launch on April 29 at the last minute, just as the six astronauts had boarded the van that was to have taken them to the launch.
Endeavour is making the second to last ever flight in the shuttle programme before the ageing fleet is retired later this year. It is to deliver a physics particle detector and extra parts to the ISS.
