Weather Outlook Good for Shuttle Launch (Wednesday)

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Weather Outlook Good for Shuttle Launch
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Sep 4, 8:02 PM (ET)

By MIKE SCHNEIDER

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - After more than a week of storm delays, NASA may be getting its best shot weather-wise for launching space shuttle Atlantis, officials said Monday.

There was only a 20 percent chance that weather would prohibit the shuttle from blasting off at 12:28 p.m. Wednesday as planned, said Kathy Winters, shuttle weather officer.

Unlike last week's planned launch attempts, the window Wednesday opens before Florida's afternoon summer thunderstorms normally blow through, and a tropical depression brewing in the Atlantic wasn't expected to interfere.


Space Shuttle Atlantis stands ready on launch pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, Sept. 4, 2006. Atlantis is scheduled for launch on Wednesday. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

"I feel better that we're launching around noontime than around 4:30 in the afternoon, as we first started off trying to do," said launch director Mike Leinbach, referring to the original launch time more than a week ago.

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