NASA's space shuttle fleet will continue flying through at least early next year due to delays with the agency's final two missions.

Space shuttle program managers officially decided Thursday to delay the launch of NASA's next space shuttle mission to Nov. 1 and push back the last scheduled flight to late February 2011.

The move was not unexpected - the space agency said in late June it was hoping to postpone the final shuttle flights because of cargo delivery and schedule conflicts. Both missions are bound for the International Space Station.

The new plan delays the launch of Discovery - NASA's oldest space shuttle - from an earlier Sept. 16 target to Nov. 1.

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