A prelaunch news conference will take place today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will be broadcast on NASA TV beginning no earlier than 3:45 p.m. EDT.
Scheduled conference participants will be Mission Management Team Chair, Mike Moses; Director of Human Spaceflight, Simonetta di Pippo of the European Space Agency; STS-128 Launch Director Pete Nickolenko and Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters.
The forecast for the 1:36 a.m. Tuesday launch has improved to 80 percent for favorable weather at time of liftoff but the probability of favorable weather for tanking decreased to 60 percent because of storms possibly moving into the area over Launch Pad 39A.
The STS-128 astronauts will be awakened at 3 p.m. today to begin their day and preparations on space shuttle Discovery are proceeding smoothly with no issues being worked.