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A potentially dangerous hydrogen gas leak cropped up during the fueling of space shuttle Endeavour today and forced NASA to postpone the launch by at least four days.

President Barack Obama will name Charles Bolden, a four-time space shuttle astronaut and retired Marine general, as administrator of NASA as it faces questions about its future, the White House said on Saturday.

Weather conditions forced NASA to wave off a landing attempt for space shuttle Atlantis scheduled for 9:16 a.m. ET Saturday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the space agency said.

The Atlantis will have another chance to land at 11:39 a.m. If the weather does not improve, NASA will try again Saturday.

With a mostly dark home planet behind him, astronaut Michael Good rides Atlantis' remote manipulator system arm to the exact position he needs to be to continue work on the Hubble Space Telescope on the STS-125 mission's fourth spacewalk on May 17, 2009.

What do you do when you're NASA and comedian Stephen Colbert wins your contest to name the new wing for the International Space Station?

NASA engineers announced they have set 3:13 p.m. Saturday as the time for the space shuttle to land at Kennedy Space Center.

Comedian Stephen Colbert, who unsuccessfully tried to get on the ballot of the South Carolina presidential primaries, aimed higher and won this time.

Floating debris from a satellite forced the crew of the international space station to retreat to a safety capsule Thursday, according to a NASA news release.

NASA has postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery because of a gas leak. The leak of gaseous hydrogen occurred as the launch team was filling the external fuel tank for liftoff Wednesday night. The seven astronauts had yet to board the spaceship.