I got a call at 1:36 this afternoon from faxpaladin. He had heard on the news wires that the Space Shuttle Endeavour would be spending the night at JRB Ft. Worth and was due to arrive about 3:17 our time ( Read more... )

I have NASA TV on still. Nothing much is happening at the moment, since the crews are asleep, but the video feed is from external cameras on ISS and/or Atlantis ( Read more... )

Atlantis has made to it's initial orbit.

Still need the OMS-2 burn to go smoothly and to get the payload bay doors open. Then they can stay... :-)

Atlantis launches in 30 minutes. So far so good on the count.

Launched scrubbed due to clouds.

Next opportunity is tomorrow night with a preferred launch time of 8:13:17 p.m. CST. Weather is forecast to be worse, so this one is iffy canceled.

Saturday's preferred launch time is 7:47:34 p.m. CST. The forecast is a little better for Saturday.

If they make an attempt including fueling tomorrow, then I ( Read more... )