Countdown activities continue on schedule as teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare for the 8:56 a.m. EDT liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on its final mission. <\/p>\n
At Launch Pad 39A, the Closeout Crew is beginning to ready the climate-controlled White Room outside Endeavour’s crew access hatch and the Final Inspection Team, often known as the "Ice Team," is conducting a detailed survey of the shuttle and the pad structure, checking for ice buildups or other potential issues.<\/p>\n
Weather remains favorable with a 70 percent chance of good conditions at launch time and no technical issues are being worked.<\/p>\n
Follow along with Endeavour’s countdown milestones on NASA’s Launch Blog at http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/launch\/launch_blog.html and on NASA TV at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Countdown activities continue on schedule as teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida prepare for the 8:56 a.m. EDT liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour on its final mission. <\/p>\n
At Launch Pad 39A, the Closeout Crew is beginning to ready the climate-controlled White Room outside Endeavour’s crew access hatch and the Final Inspection Team, often known as the "Ice Team," is conducting a detailed survey of the shuttle and the pad structure, checking for ice buildups or other potential issues.<\/p>\n
Weather remains favorable with a 70 percent chance of good conditions at launch time and no technical issues are being worked.<\/p>\n
Follow along with Endeavour’s countdown milestones on NASA’s Launch Blog at http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/shuttle\/launch\/launch_blog.html and on NASA TV at www.nasa.gov\/ntv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96958","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\/96958","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96958\/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=96958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}