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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 5184592" data-attributes="member: 92282">T-20 Minutes and HoldingWed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:32 PM GMTAt NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, countdown clocks are holding at T-20 minutes for a duration of 10 minutes. The weather trend is improving, and space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven astronauts are awaiting liftoff at 6:03 p.m. EDT.Earlier today, cumulus clouds, anvil clouds and lightning caused the Eastern Range to go "red" on several weather rules, meaning those conditions were a violation of launch safety rules. But Shuttle Weather Officer Kathy Winters has advised Launch Director Pete Nickolenko that the range now is "green" on all constraints. Storms to the northwest have dissipated, while a system to the northeast is not interfering with the countdown at this point.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.</blockquote>

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