Title: Atlantis Set For May 11 Launch To Hubble
e2wufos - May 9, 2009 08:15 PM (GMT)
Shuttle, Crew and Weather "Go" for Launch on Monday
Sat, 09 May 2009 04:50:06 PM GMT
[B]STS-125 Mission Patch
At Saturday morning's countdown status briefing, NASA Test Director Jeff Spaulding said the countdown is proceeding well, and all the teams are prepared and well aware of the significance of this flight. "We're all ready to go and looking forward to the great science that will result from this mission," he added.
Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters reported that the weather forecast for Monday's launch is still 80 favorable at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with only a slight chance of an isolated shower in the area of Moron, Spain, the only transoceanic abort landing site for this mission.
Just after the countdown began on Friday afternoon, the seven STS-125 astronauts arrived at Kennedy. At the Shuttle Landing Facility, Commander Scott Altman and Pilot Gregory C. Johnson conducted suited practices in the Shuttle Training Aircraft on Saturday morning.
Liftoff of Atlantis and crew on the final mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is set for 2:01 p.m. EDT on May 11.[/B] 