NASA counts down toward Saturday shuttle launch

NASA began counting down Wednesday toward the weekend launch of space shuttle Endeavour, on track for a space station construction mission. Forecasters put the odds of good launch weather Saturday morning at 90 percent. The flight comes less than three weeks after NASA's last shuttle trip involving the successful overhaul of the Hubble Space Telescope. The highlight of this 16-day mission will be the completion of a huge Japanese lab. Endeavour was on standby as a rescue ship throughout the Hubble mission. Severe thunderstorms prevented NASA from moving Endeavour from one pad to the other on time and, in fact, kept the Hubble crew from landing in Florida. More

(Source: The Associated Press - Jun 11)