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To: RightWhale

spaceflightnow.com
1550 GMT (11:50 a.m. EDT)

Atlantis has was opened at 11:45 a.m., and mission specialists Joe Tanner and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper have climbed out of the middeck.

1531 GMT (11:31 a.m. EDT)

After a dramatic, down-to-the-wire debate, NASA's Mission Management Team called off the shuttle Atlantis' countdown today and delayed launch at least 24 hours because of concern about an apparently faulty low-level hydrogen fuel sensor in the ship's huge external tank.

Read our full story.

1530 GMT (11:30 a.m. EDT)

The Orbiter Closeout Crew and the AstroVan have arrived back at pad 39B to assist the astronauts out of Atlantis.

Meanwhile, NASA is planning a post-scrub news conference no sooner than 12 p.m.



Following every detail as this tray of icecubes continues to freeze. The back row seems to be fairly solid now.


150 posted on 09/08/2006 9:03:29 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: RightWhale

spaceflightnow.com
1614 GMT (12:14 p.m. EDT)

The AstroVan is driving away from launch pad 39B now -- a little more than four hours after delivering the astronauts to board Atlantis.

1608 GMT (12:08 p.m. EDT)

Commander Brent Jett has exited the shuttle. All six astronauts will be heading back to crew quarters for dinner and await tomorrow's launch attempt.

1606 GMT (12:06 p.m. EDT)

Rookie shuttle pilot Chris Ferguson has emerged.

1602 GMT (12:02 p.m. EDT)

Steve MacLean from the Canadian Space Agency has egressed.

1600 GMT (12:00 p.m. EDT)

Flight engineer Dan Burbank has exited Atlantis.



There are a couple Canadians on this mission


151 posted on 09/08/2006 9:18:39 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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