NASA's Mission Management Team is meeting to decide whether to gas up shuttle Atlantis and attempt to launch this afternoon despite a dismal weather forecast.
Shuttle Launch Weather Officer Kathy Winters is briefing mission managers now on the operations forecast, which still calls for a 70 percent chance that stormy weather will prohibit a 2:45 p.m. liftoff.
Here's the briefing chart shown at the meeting:
NASA nonetheless is expected to give engineers the go-ahead to start the three-hour fuel-loading operation as scheduled at 5:20 a.m.
NASA TV coverage of the tanking operation will be webcast live here in The Flame Trench. Simply click the link below the image above to launch our NASA TV viewer.
You can also check out a Video Report on the tanking operation here: Shuttle fuel-loading on tap.
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IMAGE NOTE: Click to enlarge the NASA photo of Atlantis bathed in xenon floodlights at launch pad 39A late Wednesday after the Rotating Service Structure was rolled back away from the vehicle in preparation for fuel-loading operations. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.
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