NASA to set official launch date today

Senior NASA managers are expected to select July 1 today as the official launch date for STS-121, the agency's second post-Columbia shuttle test flight.

The launch-date decision will come after the conclusion of a two-day Flight Readiness Review at Kennedy Space Center.

Image note: Click to enlarge this NASA image taken during the first day of the FRR. See if you can spot NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations William Gerstenmaier, NASA Chief Astronaut Kent Rominger, Kennedy Space Center Director Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Bill Parsons and others. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett.