The start of space shuttle Endeavour's ferry flight to California has been delayed another day due to stormy weather on the route to the first stop in Houston.
The shuttle program final ferry flight is now expected to begin at sunrise Wednesday.
The flight had been scheduled to start Monday and arrive in Los Angeles, Calif., on Thursday.
Endeavour now is expected to arrive at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday.
A low pressure front in the northern Gulf of Mexico is causing thunderstorms in the planned flight path for Endeavour and its modified 747 carrier aircraft, conditions that pushed the planned start date to at least Tuesday.
After a series of weather briefings today, managers concluded that the forecast wouldn't improve enough tomorrow.
After taking off from Kennedy Space Center, if weather permits, the piggybacked jumbo jet and orbiter are expected to fly over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and south to Patrick Air Force Base before looping back up the Indian River and making a final pass over the KSC Visitor Complex and the shuttle runway.
It's expected to move to its final retirement home, the California Science Center, in mid-October.
At least four members of the last astronaut crew to fly Endeavour – pilot Gregory Johnson and mission specialists Greg Chamitoff, Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke – are expected to watch Endeavor depart, according to tweets by Johnson.
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