Today News Shuttle Launch: Thunderstorms threatened to delay the launch of NASA space shuttle scheduled for final Friday, lightning strikes near the pad as the astronauts landed at Cape Canaveral by the dozens on the eve of the historic flight. While seventy percent of the expected "no-go," the leader said to try to launch Atlantis in time anyway. NASA test director Jeff Spaulding said the spacecraft was able to begin with the poorest prognosis. "It 'a sort of chances there," he said Thursday the rain together in "It' a really hard day, if you make the decision not to go, and proves to be good weather." The begin time is 11:26 NASA closed its thirty years of the Space Shuttle plan to target the asteroids and Mars, the preferred destinations of the White House.
Private companies take its place to pull the cargo and crew to the International Space Station, NASA, to issue up to concentrate on the issues as well. "We trust that the American people it's time for NASA to do the hard thing to go beyond low Earth orbit," NASA associate administrator Lori Garver, told reporters collection launch. The 1st is one of the shuttle flights. Thursday late morning, lightning struck the 3rd mile from the launch pad. No immediate damage was reported, but the engineers ran out to see signs of troubles of an electrical fault. Lightning strikes have delayed shuttle launches in new years. The chance of favorable weather conditions during flight to improve with all passing day, said the duty officer Kathy Winters weather transport,. The earlier begin time every day moves, which helps, he said NASA on Sunday, perhaps Monday, to get Atlantis and its 4 astronauts in orbit. Otherwise, the probe will remain grounded until the next weekend, because the missile launches Air Force precedence. Rain or shine, hundreds of thousands of folks expected to jam the area to launch. Some estimates put the crowd at about 1 million. Dozens of astronauts are already in the city, admitting the 1st shuttle pilot Robert Crippen, who opened the era aboard Columbia in 1981. Along one of the main roads leading to Kennedy Space Center, closed businesses and even churches in the festivity with the billboards by saying "God bless Atlantis on July eight" and "Godspeed Atlantis and its crew ".
The countdown was going well, at least, only a few minor technical troubles reported Pad. Atlantis is linked to the International Space Station with the provisions of a year. NASA wants space station well equipped in case of delays in obtaining transport commercial cargo began. The 1st supply of private performance sponsored - by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - is scheduled for after this year. NASA delayed the load; Joe was excited as he showed images of twenty-one feet long, the load of shiny metal in the cargo bay of Atlantis. This massive bay is the only thing that none of the small boats were moving forward. "It's just beautiful it is a piece of metal. It is a life-style," he said. "We are a few inches on what we know and what we are doing now is what I see as the basis for human spaceflight.”Yes, the emotional, but it is also a part of history. I think that's what you see from a lot of people down here." Also on board Atlantis: several sets of plates and pins representing all the 135 shuttle missions, and thousands of bookmarks and from babies. The patches and pins will be presented in schools later flight delay, he said. 12-day trip during the Atlantis is due back to the Kennedy touchdown on 20 July 42 anniversary of the first steps on the Moon. "There's an old saying that it's better to travel well than to arrive," said Spaulding. "And I must say, later thirty years, our plan and the shuttle in all their missions, at less worked fine. And later 135 were landing; I think we can say at this stage as we arrived. 
Private companies take its place to pull the cargo and crew to the International Space Station, NASA, to issue up to concentrate on the issues as well. "We trust that the American people it's time for NASA to do the hard thing to go beyond low Earth orbit," NASA associate administrator Lori Garver, told reporters collection launch. The 1st is one of the shuttle flights. Thursday late morning, lightning struck the 3rd mile from the launch pad. No immediate damage was reported, but the engineers ran out to see signs of troubles of an electrical fault. Lightning strikes have delayed shuttle launches in new years. The chance of favorable weather conditions during flight to improve with all passing day, said the duty officer Kathy Winters weather transport,. The earlier begin time every day moves, which helps, he said NASA on Sunday, perhaps Monday, to get Atlantis and its 4 astronauts in orbit. Otherwise, the probe will remain grounded until the next weekend, because the missile launches Air Force precedence. Rain or shine, hundreds of thousands of folks expected to jam the area to launch. Some estimates put the crowd at about 1 million. Dozens of astronauts are already in the city, admitting the 1st shuttle pilot Robert Crippen, who opened the era aboard Columbia in 1981. Along one of the main roads leading to Kennedy Space Center, closed businesses and even churches in the festivity with the billboards by saying "God bless Atlantis on July eight" and "Godspeed Atlantis and its crew ".
The countdown was going well, at least, only a few minor technical troubles reported Pad. Atlantis is linked to the International Space Station with the provisions of a year. NASA wants space station well equipped in case of delays in obtaining transport commercial cargo began. The 1st supply of private performance sponsored - by Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - is scheduled for after this year. NASA delayed the load; Joe was excited as he showed images of twenty-one feet long, the load of shiny metal in the cargo bay of Atlantis. This massive bay is the only thing that none of the small boats were moving forward. "It's just beautiful it is a piece of metal. It is a life-style," he said. "We are a few inches on what we know and what we are doing now is what I see as the basis for human spaceflight.”Yes, the emotional, but it is also a part of history. I think that's what you see from a lot of people down here." Also on board Atlantis: several sets of plates and pins representing all the 135 shuttle missions, and thousands of bookmarks and from babies. The patches and pins will be presented in schools later flight delay, he said. 12-day trip during the Atlantis is due back to the Kennedy touchdown on 20 July 42 anniversary of the first steps on the Moon. "There's an old saying that it's better to travel well than to arrive," said Spaulding. "And I must say, later thirty years, our plan and the shuttle in all their missions, at less worked fine. And later 135 were landing; I think we can say at this stage as we arrived. 
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