Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida, rising on twin columns of fire to embark on
ST-125, the final shuttle mission to service NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope.
It's not exactly a page-turner but a recently issued GAO
report ANN is reading has us a mite concerned... according to some
of the data published therein, the GAO found that, "It is uncertain
whether the Air Force will be able to acquire new satellites in
time to maintain current GPS service without interruption. If not,
some military operations and some civilian users could be adversely
affected."
At Sunday morning's final countdown status briefing from NASA's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Test Director Charlie
Blackwell-Thompson said that the countdown timeline is on target
and "Atlantis is ready to fly."
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