Wed, Apr 27, 2011
NASA Says Everything Is Progressing Towards A Launch As
Scheduled
At Tuesday's pre-launch countdown status briefing held at NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida, managers reported space shuttle
Endeavour, its payload and crew are ready for launch at 1547 EDT
Friday. NASA Test Director Jeremy Graeber reported everything is
progressing on schedule for the 25th and final launch of space
shuttle Endeavour. "Our teams here at Kennedy Space Center, and at
NASA centers around the country, have been working for over a year
to get Endeavour ready for the STS-134 mission," said Graeber.
"We're not working any issues at this time … and over the
past ten days have completed some major milestones."
Joe Delai, STS-134 payload manager gave a brief overview of the
payload and will have more details during Thursday's launch
countdown briefing. "The payloads are closed for flight, we're not
working any issues and ready to support launch," said Delai.
Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters reported weather is looking
good for launch day and for the loading of propellants into
Endeavour's external fuel tank although there may be possibility
for a storm during the rollback of the rotating service structure,
or RSS, scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday.
At this time there's only a 20 percent chance of weather
hindering a successful launch on Friday, due to possible windy
conditions, reported Winters.
NASA's official launch countdown clock began counting backward
toward Friday's liftoff at 1400 Tuesday.
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