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NASA is repairing a leaky hydrogen gas line on Endeavour’s fuel tank in hopes of launching the shuttle on its space station construction mission Wednesday, four days after the first try was called off.
But another NASA mission, involving a pair of science spacecraft bound for the moon, is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday. Top space agency officials will decide today whether to bump the moon mission to make way for Endeavour.
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