NASA Prepares for Nighttime Shuttle Launch
FROM THE DOPPLER 10 FORECAST CENTER… A HEAT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 7 PM FRIDAY… McLENNAN, WILLIAMSON, AND SAN SABA…AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES TODAY AND FRIDAY WILL RISE TO BETWEEN 105 AND 110 DEGREES...WHILE OVERNIGHT LOWS TONIGHT WILL STRUGGLE TO FALL BELOW 80 DEGREES…PERSONS INVOLVED IN VIGOROUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES ARE URGED TO TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS AND DRINK PLENTY OF WATER…
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(November, 14 2008) – Crews at Cape Canaveral are getting ready to fuel up space shuttle Endeavour for a nighttime launch on a space station remodeling mission.

Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen are to begin flowing into the shuttle's external tanks at 10:30 a.m. Friday.

A cold front is on its way to Florida but NASA officials say there's about a 70 percent chance the weather will cooperate enough to go ahead with the 7:55 p.m. launch. About a fourth of all shuttle missions start at night.

The shuttle's crew is heading to the international space station to deliver a new bathroom, kitchenette, an exercise machine, two bedrooms and a system capable of turning urine into drinking water.
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Posted by: Anonymous1 Location: Waco on Nov 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM
"system capable of turning urine into drinking water." Can we not afford for our space crew to have a supply of purified water? :( Poor guys.