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Nasa to launch Atlantis despite bad weather
Nasa pressed ahead with Thursday's planned launch of shuttle Atlantis, even though bad weather threatened to delay the mission to add another science lab to the international space station.
- Agencies
- Published: 14:54 February 7, 2008
Cape Canaveral: Nasa pressed ahead with Thursday's planned launch of shuttle Atlantis, even though bad weather threatened to delay the mission to add another science lab to the international space station.
Forecasters said there was a 70 percent chance that rain, clouds and possibly even a severe thunderstorm would keep Atlantis on the pad for yet another day. The space shuttle is already two months late in delivering the European lab, Columbus, to the space station.
NASA is anxious about getting Atlantis flying as soon as possible to keep alive its plan for six shuttle missions this year. The space agency faces a 2010 deadline for finishing the station and retiring the shuttles.
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