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Kennedy Riding Out Tropical Storm Fay
Image above: Technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center maneuver a protective cover over a Fine Guidance Sensor destined for the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronauts will install the upgraded pointing instrument during STS-125. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
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August 20, 2008
Space shuttle Atlantis remains safely inside its processing hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as officials wait for potentially dangerous conditions from Tropical Storm Fay to clear.
Kennedy will remain closed to general personnel through at least workers' second shift, which ends late Wednesday night. So far, there are no reports of any injuries or damage associated with Fay at the center.
Atlantis was to be moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Monday to be joined to an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters. That move will take place after storm conditions have lifted. Atlantis is targeted to launch Oct. 8 on STS-125, a mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The astronauts who will fly the mission continue with their training. Spacewalkers John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel are rehearsing servicing procedures inside the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a gigantic pool, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Image above: Technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center maneuver a protective cover over a Fine Guidance Sensor destined for the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronauts will install the upgraded pointing instrument during STS-125. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller › View Hi-res Image
August 20, 2008
Space shuttle Atlantis remains safely inside its processing hangar at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as officials wait for potentially dangerous conditions from Tropical Storm Fay to clear.
Kennedy will remain closed to general personnel through at least workers' second shift, which ends late Wednesday night. So far, there are no reports of any injuries or damage associated with Fay at the center.
Atlantis was to be moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building on Monday to be joined to an external tank and pair of solid rocket boosters. That move will take place after storm conditions have lifted. Atlantis is targeted to launch Oct. 8 on STS-125, a mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The astronauts who will fly the mission continue with their training. Spacewalkers John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel are rehearsing servicing procedures inside the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a gigantic pool, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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