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Shuttle delay means Williams could set space record
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Astronaut Sunita Williams is stuck in space as repairs are being made to the space shuttle, but the extended stay could net her a place in the record books.

She flew up to the international space station last December planning to come home in early July after a seven-month stay. But a hail storm that damaged the fuel tank of the space shuttle Atlantis has knocked NASA's flight schedule for the year out of whack.

Her ticket home, space shuttle Endeavour, will now get off the ground several weeks later than its originally scheduled June 28 launch.

During her longer stay in space, Williams is expected to break the U.S. record for continuous time in space. Her current crew mate, Michael Lopez-Alegria, will set that record when he returns to Earth on April 20 in a Russian Soyuz vehicle with 214 days in space. The longest stay in space was 437 days by Russian Valeri Polyakov.