Live at KSC: Florida Today Webcast Begins

Join Florida Today KSC Bureau Chief Todd Halvorson in live coverage of the countdown and launch of STS-126 on a 15-day mission to the International Space Station.

Halvorson, a veteran aerospace reporter, will interview a list of knowledgible space industry leaders, who will tell the inside story of today's launch.

Find live coverage at Florida Today Home Page during the run-up to launch.

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Out on the Florida Today Home Page, look for us to start webcasting live NASA TV coverage at 2:30 p.m. Then we'll have live shots from our Florida Today blockhouse just 3.5 miles from pad 39A starting at 3 p.m.

We've got an awesome line-up of guests. Check it out:

-At 3 p.m.: Former NASA astronaut Loren Shriver will be at the blockhouse to talk about the mission at hand as well as a new software upgrade that would save Endeavour's crew in the unlikely event of an emergency landing at Kennedy Space Center.

-At 4:15 p.m.: Veteran Close-Out Crew member Mike Mangionne of United Space Alliance will join us to talk about suiting up and boarding the winged orbiter.

-At 5 p.m.: Boeing Flow Manager Mike Kinslow will detail the heaviest haul of supplies and equipment the shuttle has ever carried in one of its Italian-built moving vans.

-At 6 p.m.: NASA astronaut Janice Voss will chat about the extra science the U.S. and its international partners will be able to do once Endeavour's crew outfits the station for resident crews of six -- double the current number. And finally after 10 years of assembly.

-At 6:30 p.m.: Joe Oliva of Alliant Techsystems, also known as ATK, will cover plans for the first test flight of the Ares 1 rocket -- a developmental flight dubbed Ares 1X -- sometime next summer or fall.

-At 7 p.m.: Elliott Harik of Boeing will explain the trouble with the station's Solar Alpha Rotary Joint and how the astronauts intend to fix it during four spacewalks. Harik plans to show us the type of space grease gun the astronauts plan to use to rectify the problem.

-And at 8:30 p.m.: Florida Today Space Reporter James Dean and Todd Halvorson will wrap up coverage of what we hope is an on-time liftoff and a very safe and successful flight.

Join us.