Space shuttle launch delayed

The launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour has been delayed by 24 hours due to bad weather over the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA says.

The delay was caused by heavy cloud cover over Cape Canaveral, officials from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.

The Endeavour mission's main goal is the delivery to the International Space Station of the Tranquility module, also known as Node 3, which comes with a multi-window cupola.

The cupola, built for NASA by the European group Thales Alenia Space, will allow for panoramic views of Earth, space objects and spacecraft arriving at the ISS, the US space agency said.

With Endeavour's delivery of Tranquility and its attached cupola, the ISS will be 90 per cent complete, NASA said.