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RE: STS-127

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Stormy weather could stall this weekend's launch of space shuttle Endeavour.

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The countdown begins tonight for space shuttle Endeavour's 7:39 p.m. Saturday launch, a day after seven astronauts flew into Kennedy Space Centre for mission preparations.

"This crew and the entire operations team are both eager and ready to get to work, so hopefully we'll get a chance to do that come this Saturday evening" - mission commander Mark Polansky.

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Engineers plan to load the shuttle Endeavour's external tank with rocket fuel July 1 to test vent line fixes intended to stop, or at least reduce, gaseous hydrogen leaks that grounded the shuttle June 13 and 17, NASA officials said Wednesday. If the repairs work, the agency will press ahead with a third attempt to launch Endeavour on a space station assembly mission July 11.

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Endeavour's next launch opportunity is July 11. This date comes after the end of an orbital sun-angle condition called a beta angle cut-out, which occurs between June 22 and July 10. The cut-out creates a thermal condition that prohibits shuttle and space station docked operations.

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A new leak during fuelling has forced Nasa to postpone the launch of space shuttle Endeavour until July at the earliest.
The shuttle was due to have blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday, but hydrogen gas leaked from a vent line on its external fuel tank, officials said.

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NASA postponed the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour early Wednesday because of a liquid hydrogen leak.
It is the same type of leak that caused the postponement of an earlier launch from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida.
On June 13, a leak was detected in the gaseous hydrogen venting system outside the shuttle's external fuel tank, the space agency said. The system is used to carry excess hydrogen safely away from the launch pad. Officials said the seal around the system had to be replaced.
Wednesday's morning leak was in the same area, the space agency said.

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Space shuttle Endeavour is set to lift off after its planned flight last week was postponed because of a gas leak.
The shuttle's seven crew will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) to deliver the last element of a Japanese laboratory aboard the station.
During the shuttle's stay, the ISS will be a temporary home to 13 astronauts - the first time so many have stayed on the station at once.
Nasa is now targeting a launch at 10:40 BST (05:40 EDT) on Wednesday.

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NASA Sets New Launch Dates for Space Shuttle, LRO and LCROSS
NASA managers have scheduled the next launch attempt of space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 mission for 09:40 GMT (5:40 a.m. EDT) on Wednesday, June 17.
As a result, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, are set to lift off together aboard an Atlas V rocket on Thursday, June 18. There are three launch opportunities from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida: 21:12 GMT (5:12 p.m. EDT), 21:22 GMT (5:22 p.m. EDT) and 21:32 GMT (5:32 p.m. EDT)

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The launch of STS-127 was scrubbed due to a hydrogen leak at the GUCP [Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate] on the External Tank. The MMT [Mission Management Team] met to discuss this issue and is now reporting to media on the forward plan. dddd

STS-127: Post MMT Meet on GUCP - Part 1 - SD

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STS-127: Post MMT Meet on GUCP - Part 2 - SD

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