Weather great for Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch

Photo from AP Photo/Jim Dietz The Cape Canaveral crew are now prepping the Space Shuttle Endeavour for a nighttime launch on a space station remodeling... More Below... Posted by Ron Del Rosario on Nov 14th, 2008 and filed under News.

Space Shuttle Endeavor to launch for ISS mission.
Photo from AP Photo/Jim Dietz

The Cape Canaveral crew are now prepping the Space Shuttle Endeavour for a nighttime launch on a space station remodeling mission.

Preparations include filling the shuttle’s external tanks with liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

NASA officials calculated that the weather has a 70% chance of giving the Endeavour a good launch window and will give mission control the go ahead for the 7:55 p.m. launch. About a fourth of all shuttle missions start at night.

The Endeavour is heading over to the International Space Station(ISS) to deliver and rework a new bathroom, kitchenette, an exercise machine, two bedrooms and a system capable of turning urine into drinking water.

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