NASA Gives ´Go´ for Shuttle Endeavour Launch on Aug. 7

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On Thursday, NASA managers set Aug. 7 as the official launch date for space shuttle Endeavour´s STS-118 mission to the International Space Station. Liftoff from NASA´s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., is scheduled for 7:02 p.m. EDT.

Endeavour´s launch date was announced following the traditional Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy. During the two-day meeting, top NASA and contractor managers assessed any risks associated with the mission and determined that the shuttle´s equipment, support systems and procedures are ready for flight.

Commander Scott Kelly and his six crewmates are scheduled to arrive at Kennedy at 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, for final launch preparations. The countdown is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4.

During the 11-day mission, Endeavour´s crew will add another truss segment to the expanding station, install a new gyroscope on the complex and add an external spare parts platform. The flight will include at least three spacewalks. The crew will debut a new system that enables docked shuttles to draw electrical power from the station to extend visits to the outpost. If this system functions as expected, three additional days will be added to the STS-118 mission.

Joining Kelly on the flight will be Pilot Charlie Hobaugh and mission specialists Tracy Caldwell, Rick Mastracchio, Barbara R. Morgan, Alvin Drew and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Dave Williams.

The mission will be Endeavour´s first flight in more than four and a half years. The spacecraft has undergone extensive modifications, including the addition of safety upgrades already added to shuttles Discovery and Atlantis.

For more information about the STS-118 mission, including images and interviews with the crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

Nasa TV:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Hey, mais c´est que je l´ai vue la navette sur son pas de tir, y a meme pas 2 semaines. (en vrai a cap canaveral)

Je me rejouis de la voir partir. (sur la NASA TV, je pars demain...)

Moi il y a un mois et demi j´ai vu les coiffes de la fusée ariane à RUAG aerospace à Emmen près de Lucerne ils fabriquent même une pièce de l´aile de l´A380 ,les fences des A320,des pièces de réacteur pour General Electrique, modifient des FA 18,F-16,...

ok ça n´a pas grand chose à voir mais c´était impressionnant les coiffes 12 m de haut

ouais ça va etre delire ce topic comme le precedant j´espere!

ouais, j´ai hate de suivre cet évènement !
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elle es sur sont pas de tir ont va la voir hihi

Elle part quand ?

Ce soir vers 00h00

Un fait marrant regardez la date de lancement et enlevez les zéros, on obtient: 787 .

Oula ça sent le marketong ! !

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me suis dit pareil qd j´ai rempli la date de mon examen de mon code ça faisait 787 aussi sans les zero

il preparre le vole la ^^

en fait c´est demain Pas taper pas taper

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
delta07

il fait pas beau là bas ?

si mais il asis tromper de date !!

A minuuit le 8 Aout ^^

c´est un décollage de nuit?

3h avant le decollage ...