Shuttle Atlantis launch next year

Thanks to faulty sensors in the external fuel tank the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis has been postponed again right back until the 2nd of January.

It's mission is to carry the European Space Agency's Columbus lab to the International Space Station.

However it, along with the Space Station will still be visible from the UK, the bad news is in the morning instead of the early evening. Unless of course it gets put back another three or four weeks.