NASA postpones launch of space shuttle

NASA postponed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on Saturday due to a technical problem that occurred during the spacecraft's fueling, a space agency official said. Endeavour had been scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:17 a.m. EDT (1117 GMT) on a 16-day mission to install a Japanese-built outdoor porch on the International Space Station. (Reporting