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<p>Terry White, a tile technician on the shuttle Atlantis, second from left, talks about the space shuttle tiles to President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson during their visit to the Orbital Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday.</p>

<p>Terry White, a tile technician on the shuttle Atlantis, second from left, talks about the space shuttle tiles to President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia, and mother-in-law Marian Robinson during their visit to the Orbital Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday.</p>

April 30, 2011

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Shuttle flight is delayed; Obama visits Giffords
April 30, 2011 9 p.m.

Shuttle flight is delayed; Obama visits Giffords

First family tours Cape Canaveral

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The president was on his way. Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts were riding out to the launch pad in a van. And a wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had flown in from her Houston rehab hospital to watch her husband blast off Friday on the historic, next-to-last shuttle mission.