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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Weather Scrubs Shuttle Landing

(CNN) -- All Saturday landing attempts for space shuttle Atlantis have been scrubbed because of weather conditions, NASA said.

Atlantis launched May 11 for NASA's final repair visit to the Hubble Space Telescope.

The next landing opportunity at Florida's Kennedy Space Center will be at 10:11 a.m. ET Sunday, according to the space agency.

NASA waved off the first landing opportunity Saturday at 9:16 a.m. because of bad weather in Florida. When conditions showed no sign of improving, the agency decided to wait a day.

On Friday, NASA canceled two possible landing times because of a weather system that has dumped more than 2 feet of rain over parts of northeastern Florida.

That weather system is lingering in the Gulf of Mexico and continues to spread rain across the region. - CNN News Story

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