GEORGE DILLER: We're at T-3 hours and holding. From Firing Room 4 at
the Launch Control Center at Complex 39, we are now in the final six-and-
one-half hours of the countdown for the launch of Endeavour on mission STS-118.
We're on schedule for a liftoff targeted for 6:36 p.m. Eastern time
in the middle of a 10-minute launch window. This is the 119th launch of the
Space Shuttle Program, the 20th launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour and the
22nd launch for construction of the International Space Station.
This is also the first flight of an educator astronaut. Astronauts have been living
continuously on the space station now for almost seven years.