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NASA has given the green light for the space shuttle Endeavor to launch early next month.
Endeavour will blast off on February 8th on a mission to the International Space Station.

A round of thunderstorms and severe weather grounded the space shuttle Endeavour last evening. The shuttle was scheduled for launch last night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but severe weather scrapped the launch. It has been rescheduled for this evening at 6:51 p.m. EST.
The delay was the second in as many days for the shuttle.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour won’t take off today according to the Associated Press. Severe weather scrubbed the potential take-off today. The next window for a launch comes Wednesday at 6:04 p.m. EST.
“That’s the nature of our business,” mission commander Mark Polansky radioed to launch managers from the shuttle. “When the time is right, we’ll be here, we’ll be ready.”
Wednesday’s forecast looks a bit more optimistic with only a 40% change of severe weather predicted.

The space shuttle Atlantis is getting ready to take one final journey into space. The shuttle is set to launch Friday afternoon at 2:20 p.m. EST and will the 32nd mission for Atlantis. It will also be the last. The shuttle program is being retired and this mission to the International Space Station is one of the final three for the fleet