Space Shuttle Rolls out to Launch Pad Tonight-9/1/08

Posted Monday, September 1, 2008, at 5:04 PM

The components of STS-125 being assembled at Kennedy Space Center for its trip to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Due to some additional work on the Atlantis shuttle, it will roll out tonight at 11:01 Piggott time, from the Vehicle Assembly Building (the largest building on earth) to the launch pad, taking about 6 hours to reach the pad. Atlantis will be commanded by Scott Altman. Gregory C. Johnson will be pilot. Mission Specialists will be John Grunsfeld, Mike Massimino, Megan McArthur, Andrew Feustel and Michael Good. The shuttle will launch Oct. 8 for an 11-day mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, over 400 miles above the earth.

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Rollout of the Atlantis is postponed to no earlier than September 4, due to the possible strike of Hurricane Hanna.

-- Posted by Kenneth Renshaw on Wed, Sep 3, 2008, at 11:53 AM

Atlantis is tentatively scheduled to go to the launch pad at 9 AM (Central time) tomorrow 9/4.

-- Posted by Kenneth Renshaw on Wed, Sep 3, 2008, at 6:01 PM

Atlantis is now at the launch pad. We hope the next hurricane, Ike, stays south.

-- Posted by Kenneth Renshaw on Fri, Sep 5, 2008, at 10:31 AM

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Kenneth Renshaw NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador/Saturn Observation Campaign Kenneth is one of 494 volunteer educators and astronomers who donate their time to educate America's youth, and the general public, about astronomy and the U.S. space program. Organized in 1999 by NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab,it focuses on spacecraft built by the JPL such as Voyager, Mars Rover, Galileo, Cassini as well as the Hubble Space Telescope. Renshaw is one of four ambassadors in Arkansas, and makes presentations to all age and experience groups from pre-school to university science level. His official NASA website it www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/profiles/Kenneth_Renshaw.htm His email address is renshaw@newwavecomm.net

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