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reporter: hi, martin, good afternoon to you, and if you don t mind i m going to dhet over my shoulder because i m looking at the president s motorcade and i realize you can t see it, but he now appears to be headed over towards the launch control center, and we don t know if he s going to be meeting congresswoman gabby giffords or not on this visit, but he is headed over towards the launch control center, and so one would think that s entirely a possibility. we will probably hear about it after the fact. as for what caused the delay of today s launch endeavour, which was going to be its last launch before it is retired, a heating unit on an auxiliary power unit failed and the reason that s important is because the heating unit keeps the hydraulic fluid lines warm enough that they can do their jobs, with si controlling everything from the nozzles on the engines to the flaps on the wings to the brakes on the shuttle. so you can see why that s very important that those systems are ope ....

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