[Brit1]

Hi Kevin, Thanks for your links... around 2.30 am here for the launch.
Even the wife was awake to watch it.

Very cool stuff these night launches.

Prayers from us both for a successful mission and a safe return.

[RightWhale]

spaceflightnow.com

1630 GMT (11:30 a.m. EST)

Astronauts Robert Curbeam and Sunita "Suni" Williams are gearing up for a critical spacewalk today to finish re-wiring the international space station. If time is available and no major problems develop, they also plan to inspect a balky solar array and perhaps shake it a bit to free up a stuck guide wire that is preventing its full retraction.

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They have a Canadian inch-worm robotic arm that could be used to push on the mal-folded pleat, or they could try giving it a push while they are out there rewiring the array.

[RightWhale]

spaceflightnow.com

1730 GMT (12:30 p.m. EST)

The powering down of space station systems in preparation for today's electrical re-wiring job by the spacewalkers is underway. The EVA is scheduled to begin in about two hours.