Shuttle Launch Delayed to July by Hydrogen Leak

The two launch scrubs cost NASA at least $1 million, primarily in fuel costs.

NASA security guards talk near the astronaut van early Wednesday morning June 17, 2009 at the...

NASA security guards talk near the astronaut van early Wednesday morning June 17, 2009 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA scrubbed today's planned liftoff due to hydrogen leaking on a vent line on the orbiter's external tank. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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They could not have come at a worse time. An independent committee that will review the space agency's plans to build a successor to the shuttle and return astronauts to the moon by 2020 holds its first public meeting Wednesday in Washington.

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