The space shuttle Endeavour’s launch is set for early Sunday morning. The weather looks clear for the early Sunday morning 4:39 am launch time.
According to the NASA website:
Endeavour's STS-130 Mission
Commander George Zamka will lead the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour. Terry Virts will serve as the pilot. Mission Specialists are Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip to space.
Shuttle Endeavour and its crew will deliver to the space station a third connecting module, the Italian-built Tranquility node and the seven-windowed cupola, which will be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.
Liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled for February 7, 2010, at 4:39 a.m. EST. Countdown coverage on NASA TV and NASA's Launch Blog begins at 11:30 p.m. tonight.
NASA and ATK test various rockets from the ATK test stand in Promontory, Utah.
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