Endeavour Astronauts Set To Fly Today To KSC

The astronauts who will fly NASA's penultimate shuttle mission will arrive at Kennedy Space Center today just before NASA picks up a countdown to the planned launch Friday of Endeavour on its 25th and final flight.

A countdown status briefing will air on NASA TV at 10 a.m. NASA Test Director Jeremy Graeber, STS-134 Payload Manager Joe Delai and Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters will brief the news media on the launch forecast and plans to pick up the countdown at 2 p.m. Call to stations in Firing Room No. 4 at the Launch Control Center.

You can watch the briefing live here in The Flame Trench. Click the NASA TV button on the right to launch our NASA TV viewer and live coverage.

At 12:15 p.m. today you can watch the arrival at KSC of mission commander Mark Kelly and his STS-134 crew. Kelly will be flying to KSC with pilot Gregory "Box" Johnson and four mission specialists: Greg Chamitoff, Andrew "Drew" Feustel, Michael Fincke and Roberto Vittori of the European Space Agency.

Launch remains scheduled for 3:47 p.m. Friday.