Science: Space Exploration: UPDATE: Shuttlenauts landing scuttled, waiting waiting tick tock

The landing that wasn't has turned into the long wait; this time it's the weather, and that's convincing from a Toronto perspective because of the recent Air France crash here where the wet runway was a key factor on a foreshortened runway that sent that vehicle into flames.

We're hopin' and we're prayin' that nothing so untoward is ....

We'll be welcoming you all, you lovable bunch of astronautical genii ... so, again, Happy Landing! - Anaximaximum

FoxNews.com reports "NASA scraps Discovery landing":

Space Center, Houston — After orbiting the Earth for nearly two weeks, astronauts aboard space shuttle Discovery were told to circle the planet for another day as bad weather in Florida forced NASA to delay Monday's scheduled landing.

The astronauts had powered up their spacecraft and were awaiting word from Mission Control to fire their braking rockets and head for home when controllers announced early Monday that low clouds over Cape Canaveral would postpone the landing.

When clouds still threatened after the second of two opportunities, NASA officials rescheduled the landing for Tuesday.

By the way, Fox has a great series of free short newsvideos on various themes and moments of the shuttle's venture:

• Another Day in Space
• Coming Home
• Astronauts Step Out of Shuttle
• Problem Solved
• Astronauts Confident About Mission
• NASA Sets Repair Spacewalk
• Space Program Setback
• Foam Problem Persists

FoxNews videos on space-shuttle Discovery