Endeavour: Watch Live Shuttle Launch

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the countdown clock is holding at T-9 minutes. This is today's final built-in hold. Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven astronauts are awaiting liftoff at 6:03pm EDT.

There are no technical issues being reported by the launch team, and weather conditions continue to improve. Storms to the northwest have dissipated, while a system to the northeast is not interfering with the countdown at this point. At this point, weather is "go" on all constraints.

The astronauts are strapped into Endeavour's crew module. Once the launch pad closeout crew closed and latched Endeavour's side hatch for flight, they finished up their work in the pad's environmentally controlled White Room before departing to a roadblock a safe distance away.

Endeavour: Watch Live Shuttle Launch

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