Mike Curie: Live from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, inside Firing Room 4
of the Launch Control Center, this is Shuttle Launch Control.
We are in the T-3 hour hold, with about an hour and 24 minutes remaining in the hold.
The countdown for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-127 is continuing on schedule today.
Launch is planned for 6:51:24 p.m. EDT from Launch Pad 39A.
The launch window will extend for about five minutes. All operations to date have been going on schedule.
At about 9:33 a.m., we began the operations to load the external tank with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid propellants that
will be used by the shuttle's main engines to lift Endeavour to orbit once we launch.
Today, we are expecting that the West Coast sea breeze and its outflow boundaries also
will migrate across the state again and likely interact with the East Coast storms.
This all may occur closer to Kennedy Space Center . . . in fact it might occur at Kennedy
Space Center and we're looking at it very carefully.
We don't expect the West Coast sea breeze to be a concern until possibly 5 to 6 p.m. EDT today.
Again our launch time is 6:51 p.m. EDT.
So we'll keep our eye on the weather throughout the day.
We'll be talking with one of the weather officers later on and we'll get a picture for where we are.
Our primary concerns for launch are showers and thunderstorms within 20 nautical miles of the Shuttle Landing Facility
as well as lightning and cumulous cloud cover which violates our launch commit criteria.