Shuttle info FYI
 

STS-125 shuttle mission to the Hubble telescope - Launch 9:19 PM CST October 14th. Atlantis shuttle

STS-126 shuttle mission to the space station - Launch 6:07 PM CST November 16th. Endeavor shuttle.

There are currently 2 shuttles on the pad, which is very unusual. STS-125 and STS-400 (Endeavour). STS-400 is the designated rescue shuttle should something go wrong with the shuttle Atlantis (STS-125). Endeavour's on Pad 39b. Atlantis is on Pad 39A. There's no place for the astronauts to camp out at the telescope if something goes wrong with their bird.

This is a 4 day delay. We lost 10 days of simulations due to the hurricane

Tom

thanks Tom and thanks I saw two out there on the nasa channel and thought that was odd, why the back up, cause they have to go farther into space to reach humble?

thank you i always look forward to your post :)

Tom, I had to go back and read your first ever post here (because I wanted to know exactly how you get so much up to the minute info, and the Nasa icon was intriguing).

WOW. That must be an amazing job you do! :D Kuddos to you for living with MS for 20 years, and working for Nasa. Far out! :D

I love these updates - thanks!