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More narrow. how much time do they have to launch this at all in your opinion? >> i don't think i know the back end of the window about how long they have this. but nasa works with their russian partners to make sure operations at the space station deacon applicant with their launch date. they have several days this week before they have to worry about rescheduling. let's look for sometime later in the week for a launch and we'll find out probably sunday when that will be. martha: is it your understanding this electrical failure happened at the moment they were being shuttled out there to begi...

Museums, planetariums and visitors centers across the country looking to land a space shuttle orbiter. in texas home of the johnson space center, members of congress publicly lobbied for their home state. >> there's no community in the world, none in the world, that deserves an orbiter more than houston, texas. >> reporter: the drama mirrored the bidding to host an olympic games, with good reason. if your city gets one, the iconic winged flying machines will generate tens of millions in increased revenues every year. the "intrepid" museum estimates that an orbiter translates to a 30% increase ...

Congress publicly lobbied for their home state. >> there's no community in the world, none in the world, that deserves an orbiter more than houston, texas. >> reporter: the drama mirrors the bidding to host an olympic games with good reason. if your city gets one the iconic winged flying machines will again rate tens of millions in increased revenues every year. the inpid museum in the big apple translates to 30% in increased attendance. >> over 300,000 people additional to the intread. i to the new york city, couple that with the $106 million in economic benefits we think that's a pretty good...

Contaminated iv bags. and now he is leaving the door open to the u.s. hoping to arm the rebels. i'm rob marciano in the cnn weather center. we will talk about space and mercury. that planet closet to the sun. we have an orbiter with new pictures. we will show you them. thank you. president barack obama is speaking about energy this morning. in the next hour, we will bring on bill nye the science guy. we will ask if the president has a cursed hand when it comes to policy energy.

Shuttle program is now coming to an end. long overdue, some say. time to move on, build something safer, more reliable, less expensive to fly. >> maybe five, ten, 15 years from now there's going on to be a nostalgia for the shuttle, were we ever that audacious to build spacecraft to do that? and i think we'll look back and it will be something as if out of a science fiction movie. >> reporter: each orbiter will be ready for retirement after its final flight, taxic gases purged and pyrotechnics removed, "discovery" will be the first shuttle to move on. >> so, i somewhat liken it to now we're at...