[freeinhou]

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

[weegot5kiz]

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

[dmplaura]

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! Kuddos to you for living with MS for 20 years, and working for Nasa. Far out!

[the Bird]

I love these updates - thanks!