At 8 a.m. today, NASA is scheduled to begin rolling shuttle Endeavour around from launch pad 39B to pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
You can watch live coverage of the move here at The Flame Trench. Just click on the NASA TV viewer above, or continue to refresh this page to track Endeavour's progress from spaceport Web cameras.
Managers this morning made a final weather assessment before deciding to proceed with the move, which had been planned for Saturday. Forecasts show the possibility of severe weather then.
Endeavour's 3.4-mile ride from one pad to the other is expected to take about seven hours.
Endeavour is targeted for a Nov. 14 launch on a 15-day International Space Station outfitting mission.
The mission's seven crew members are scheduled to arrive at the space center Sunday afternoon for three days of training, including a practice countdown.
Endeavour was positioned on pad 39B because it was designated as the rescue shuttle for Atlantis on its Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Since the Hubble mission has been postponed until next year, Atlantis was rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Monday, allowing Endeavour to take its place on pad 39A.
Such roll-arounds have only happened twice before in the shuttle program's history.
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