And I'm sure the crew and all the mission personnel are chompng at the bit!

NASA decided to try to launch the space shuttle Atlantis next Wednesday to resume construction of the International Space Station, after a delay caused by a lightning strike and the threat of bad weather. Hopes of a liftoff before the Atlantis’s launching window closes late next week had been rekindled after Hurricane Ernesto lost intensity on its approach to Florida. “We had no damage,” Bruce Buckingham, a Kennedy Space Center spokesman, said after the hurricane left the Atlantic Coast of Florida and headed north. “Zero. Nada.” Launching pad technicians have begun reattaching equipment needed to prepare the shuttle.

Please, not another weather delay!

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