The flight of Israel’s first astronaut aboard a NASA space shuttle has been delayed. The July 19 launch of the Columbia shuttle will be delayed for a few weeks until engineers determine the cause of small cracks found in the propulsion systems of two other shuttles, NASA said Monday.
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