Florida Today
The next launch of supplies to the International Space Station has been delayed at least one day, to Thursday, while NASA investigates a glitch that has shut down half the station's external coolant system.
Orbital Sciences Corp., on Saturday announced that the launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore of its Antares rocket and unmanned Cygnus cargo spacecraft was now planned no earlier than 9:19 p.m. EST Thursday, the opening of a five-minute window.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
