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GEORGE DILLER: We're at T-3 hours and holding. From Firing Room 4 at

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the Launch Control Center at Complex 39, we are now in the final six-and-

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one-half hours of the countdown for the launch of Endeavour on mission STS-118.

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We're on schedule for a liftoff targeted for 6:36 p.m. Eastern time

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in the middle of a 10-minute launch window. This is the 119th launch of the

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Space Shuttle Program, the 20th launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour and the

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22nd launch for construction of the International Space Station.

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This is also the first flight of an educator astronaut. Astronauts have been living

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continuously on the space station now for almost seven years.

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