Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Live Thread (06/13/09 07:17 AM EDT)

06/12/09 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Lord please don't let me frak up..

[KevinDavis]

[cripplecreek]

That’s an early launch.

[KevinDavis]

That is why I posted early..

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the reminder Kevin.

[al baby]

Maybe they are hungry

[Lokibob]

That means I have to get up @04:30 MDT. I guess NASA did not get my memo about scheduling. LOL

....Bob

[al baby]

Endeavour Set to Launch Saturday Morning
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:07:46 AM PDT

Space shuttle Endeavour is ready to carry seven astronauts and a key piece of the Japanese laboratory complex to the International Space Station.

The countdown for Saturday’s launch at 7:17 a.m. EDT remains on schedule. The launch pad’s rotating service structure was rolled away at 11 a.m. today, revealing Endeavour poised for liftoff. The mission management team will meet at 9:15 p.m. to give the “go/no-go” to begin loading the shuttle’s external tank with propellants. If the go-ahead is given, the loading process, called “tanking,” is scheduled to start at 9:52 p.m.

[NonValueAdded]

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[NonValueAdded]

:)

[KevinDavis]

Those dweebs...

[Textide]

Hope the alarm clocks go off for the astronauts!

NASA TV:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Spaceflight Now; Live Mission Updates:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts127/status.html

STS-127 Mission Summary:
http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts127/090611preview/

Sighting opportunities (of Shuttle and ISS):
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

[ETL]

Image above: Space shuttle Endeavour is revealed on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida following rollback of the rotating service structure. Image credit: NASA TV

Endeavour Prepares for STS-127
Space shuttle Endeavour is in place at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, undergoing final preparations for its upcoming 16-day mission to the International Space Station. Mission STS-127 is the 32nd flight dedicated to station construction, and the final of a series of three flights dedicated to the assembly of the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex.The STS-127 payload is the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module Exposed Facility and Experiment Logistics Module Exposed Section.

Latest Space Shuttle News:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

STS-127 Mission Information:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts127/index.html

[smokingfrog]

Commander Mark Polansky’s twitter.
http://twitter.com/Astro_127

[Gondring]

Commander Mark Polansky’s twitter.

"Uh, I'm a little busy now..."

[conservativefromGa]

Cancled due to hydrogen leak

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Let us know when it is rescheduled please.

[ETL]

>Canceled due to hydrogen leak

Thanks, I hadn’t heard. Had the TV off.

Here’s more on it from NASA...

Gaseous Hydrogen Leak Postpones Endeavour Launch
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:46:02 AM EDT

A gaseous hydrogen leak on a vent line for space shuttle Endeavour is postponing this morning’s launch. The official scrub time was 12:26 a.m. EDT. Launch teams began draining Endeavour’s external fuel tank of its liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen at 12:06 a.m.

Fueling was halted after the leak was detected near the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate, or GUCP, which attached to the external tank at its intertank area. The line leads from the GUCP back to the launch pad and to the “flare stack” where vented gaseous hydrogen is burned off.

The leak is similar to what happened during the first launch attempt of space shuttle Discovery’s STS-119 mission in March.

After the leak is assessed, shuttle managers plan to meet Saturday morning to discuss what steps to take next, including targeting a new launch date for Endeavour’s STS-127 mission to the International Space Station.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

[markman46]

I just wonder if the Pad B GUCP is bad, cause this happen when Discovery was on B last time, now Endeavour

[neodad]

BTTT. The weather’s not cooperating for fueling.

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