Engineering notebook

STS-122: weather near-perfect for launch

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The weather forecast for Atlantis STS-122 December, 6th launch is close to perfect. Other than with STS-120, which had only a 40% chance of launch on time, the forecast for Thursday is no 90% favorable for launch!

The emergency landing sites are also all go. Even better, the weather forecast has improved - it was 80% yesterday. The trend looks good. Let's cross fingers it remains the same...