Shuttle, Test Delays Pushing ATV, Columbus into 2008

Credit: ESA
Testing delays on Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle and continued uncertainty over the date of NASA's next space shuttle launch make it increasingly likely the Columbus laboratory module and perhaps even the ATV won't get to the International Space Station until next year. Although ATV testing...

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