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Hurricanes Delay Shuttle Launch
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin says Gulf Coast hurricanes will delay the next space shuttle launch until May - putting it two months behind schedule. Griffin, speaking Wednesday during a meeting of the Washington Post's editorial and news staffs, credited "heroic" efforts by NASA workers at Mississippi's Stennis Space Center and the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans for preventing serious damage from Hurricane Katrina. Stennis, which tests shuttle main engines, reopened last week. Michoud, which builds the shuttle's external fuel tanks, is to resume full operation next week. Griffin said the space shuttle might never have flown again except for the efforts of a 37-member "hold-down" team that remained at Michoud to keep generators and pumps running during Katrina. "They kept the diesels running, which kept the pumps running," Griffin told the Post. "You fly over it and you can see Michoud is an island of green grass in a sea of mud. The eye (of Katrina) passed right over it." He said NASA planned to fly the shuttle 18 times by 2010, using it to complete the assembly of the International Space Station and the refurbishing of the Hubble Space Telescope. All rights reserved. � 2005 United Press International. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by United Press International.. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of United Press International. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
NASA Planning To Resume Work At Michoud Assembly Facility
New Orleans LA (SPX) Sep 19, 2005Recovery efforts at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans are progressing better than originally anticipated, almost three weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck.
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