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Space shuttle Atlantis diverted to California


    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Sunday gave up waiting for weather to clear for U.S. space shuttle Atlantis to land in Florida, diverting it to California instead as it wrapped an extended 13-day mission to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope.

    Touchdown is scheduled for 11:39 a.m. EDT (4:39 p.m. British time).

    NASA had planned to bring Atlantis back to its home in Florida but was stymied by cloudy skies and rain over the Kennedy Space Centre.

    (Reporting by Irene Klotz; Editing by Tom Brown and Sandra Maler)