STS-130 To Launch In 5 Days (8 Hours)

[Gerard]

Speaking of NASA (werent we?) STS-130 Endeavour is scheduled to launch next Sunday morning (Feb 7) at
4:29AM so prepare accordingly. :) :)

[Gerard]

Delayed due to clouds moving in. Wil try tomorrow morning at 4:14.

[Matt Molnar]

I stayed up to watch it. They made the call to scrub at 4:30am. The launch manager folks said they had never seen clouds like this before. Forecast went downhill from 80% favorable a few hours before launch to 60% and then 30% about an hour before.

Disappointing, but I watched a few hours of the preparation on NASA TV's live feed which I had never seen before and was pretty neat.

[cancidas]

i was looking forward to it today, had to be up that early anyway. now i have to get up early tommorow too... =(

[Matt Molnar]

Be advised this is the last scheduled night time launch.

[Gerard]

They launched successfully and dang nabit I forgot to set up my DVR. Too much Super party yesterday.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shutt ... index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html)