NASA Will Wait to Redesign Shuttle Tank

December 1, 2006 NASA Will Wait to Redesign Shuttle Tank (AP)

Bill Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Space Operations, left, Space Shuttle Program Director, Wayne Hale, center, and Launch director, Mike Leinbach answer questions at news conference following a two-day assessment of preparations for the mission of Space Shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006. Launch date for the shuttle is no earlier than Dec. 7.(AP Photo/John Raoux)

(AP) -- NASA managers decided Thursday to wait until 2008 before redesigning the space shuttle's external fuel tank, the source of the foam problem that caused the Columbia disaster.

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