The flags are flying proud at Launch Pad 39A near space shuttle Endeavour at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Endeavour launch rescheduled

Managers officially have scheduled space shuttle Endeavour's next launch attempt for Monday, Feb. 8
at 4:14 a.m. EST.

The Mission Management Team will meet at 6:15 p.m. Sunday to give the 'go' to fill Endeavour's external fuel tank with propellants. Tank loading would begin at 6:45 p.m.

Commander George Zamka will lead the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour. Terry Virts Jr. will serve as the pilot. Mission specialists are Nicholas Patrick, KD5PKY, Robert Behnken, KE5GGX Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire. Virts will be making his first trip to space.

Endeavour will deliver a third connecting module - the Tranquility node - to the station and a seven-windowed cupola to be used as a control room for robotics. The mission will feature three spacewalks.

British astronaut Nicholas Patrick prepares for Nasa space launch
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