STS-128 Shuttle Mission to the International Space Station Launches Wednesday 06:10am

Discovery is poised for liftoff from Pad 39a:


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Berserker said:
"go" has been given for fuelling. Fingers crossed we don't see any repeat of STS-119 or STS-127.
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Let's hope we go first time, fingers crossed here as well.

The fuelling process has started with 500,000 gallons of super-cold propellants being loaded during a three-hour process.

Acceptable weather conditions for launch are still at 80 percent.

My alarm clock is set for six. :)
 
Planning on doing something similar too. I'll get up earlier than that (planned to go to bed earlier too but it didn't work out).

Should be worth it for a night launch. Not looking forward to getting sleep over the next few weeks though. I'm enough of an insomniac already. :D
 
Ugh. Florida weather doing what Florida weather does. Sucks. :/

Forecast just revised from 80% go to 40% go (i.e. 60% no-go).
 
Should be fun to watch, never seen a nightime launch before. Its hard to think that that the program has only a year or so left. Still its had a good 20 odd years, the space shuttle program hasn't done a bad job at all.
 
What a let down. I feel so disappointed, wonder what the crew are going through.

Launch due a little earlier tomorrow (06:10 BST) so don't forget to change your alarm clocks.
 
Xenon lights over launch pad 39A with the lightning strike seen to the left just before today’s launch scrub:


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The "Go" has been given to load Discovery’s external fuel tank again and tanking is underway again. The current weather forecast is 70 percent favourable conditions for launch tomorrow.


Fingers crossed again, don’t forget to reset your alarm clocks.

:)
 
There's still some possibility of storms popping up, obviously, but the general conditions are already observed much better than yesterday as evidenced by the lack of discussion of the subject (the storms were kicking off even during tanking yesterday).

Alarm clock reset. Might try 4AM again. :o
 
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