Owing to bad weather conditions and an errant cargo ship straying into the Ares I-X's 'danger zone,' the Tuesday morning launch of NASA's test rocket has been put off by a day.

All through Tuesday morning, the weather played a spoil-sport at the Kennedy Space Center, hindering the scheduled 8 a. m. launch. Despite the fact that NASA officials tried a couple of attempts to launch the rocket within the launch window and recycled the countdown, the blast off was finally shelved for the day because of no improvement in the weather.

Though another take attempt has been scheduled for 8 a. m. ET on Wednesday, October 28, the NASA officials have specified that the weather forecast for Wednesday is "better, but not great."

During the four-hour launch window of the rocket, forecasters project 60 percent likelihood of 'acceptable' weather, predicting lighter winds and less cloud cover. However, there has been no information about whether Thursday too remains a launch option in case there is another delay on Wednesday.

Talking about the unwarranted delay in the launch of the $445 million test flight of Ares I-X, the test director of the launch, Jeff Spaulding, encouraged his team saying: "For everyone, great job today. You gave it a great shot! We had some opportunities, but just couldn't get there. Weather didn't cooperate."