Archive - Dec 4, 2007
ISS Radio Report
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Countdown Under Way for STS-122
The launch team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida began the countdown Monday night for the launch of mission STS-122. Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off at 4:31 p.m. EST on Thursday to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station.
"All of our systems are in good shape," said assistant launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson.
The weather forecast calls for an 80 percent chance of acceptable weather at launch time, weather officer Kathy Winters said.
"We're very optimistic about it," Winters said.
The seven astronauts who will perform the mission arrived at Kennedy at about 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday to begin their final preparations for the mission. Atlantis has a 10-minute window to launch so it can catch up with the International Space Station.