NASA Calls Off Launch
<i> Associated Press</i>
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. —
For the second day in a row, high wind forced NASA to call off Monday’s launch of a rocket with an X-ray telescope.
The unmanned Delta launch was not immediately rescheduled. Aboard is a $195-million telescope that will probe cosmic X-ray sources, such as collapsed stars, from a 360-mile-high orbit.
Launch officials also had to contend with a small leak in the rocket’s pressure system.
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