Space Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters has updated her launch-day forecast, giving Atlantis and crew a 30 percent chance of favorable weather at the 11:26 a.m. EDT liftoff time. The concern is for showers and thunderstorms, flight through precipitation, and cumulus clouds.<\/p>\n
Winters will discuss her updated forecast during today’s prelaunch news conference, which begins at 11:30 a.m. live on NASA TV and online at www.nasa.gov\/ntv. Other participants will be Mike Moses, Mission Management Team chair and space shuttle launch integration manager and Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director. <\/p>\n
The countdown for this final space shuttle launch began yesterday at 1 p.m., and this morning at the T-27 hour mark entered a planned hold at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n
The Atlantis astronauts awoke at 4:30 a.m. to continue their preparations for launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Space Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters has updated her launch-day forecast, giving Atlantis and crew a 30 percent chance of favorable weather at the 11:26 a.m. EDT liftoff time. The concern is for showers and thunderstorms, flight through precipitation, and cumulus clouds.<\/p>\n
Winters will discuss her updated forecast during today’s prelaunch news conference, which begins at 11:30 a.m. live on NASA TV and online at www.nasa.gov\/ntv. Other participants will be Mike Moses, Mission Management Team chair and space shuttle launch integration manager and Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director. <\/p>\n
The countdown for this final space shuttle launch began yesterday at 1 p.m., and this morning at the T-27 hour mark entered a planned hold at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n
The Atlantis astronauts awoke at 4:30 a.m. to continue their preparations for launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}