when is the space shuttle taking off?

Question

when is the space shuttle scheduled to take off from cape canaveral?

Answer 1

The current launch is sometime Thursday night, but countdown glitches can always change this. A great site for current status of upcoming launches is http://www.spaceflightnow.com

This mission launch status is covered here:
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/status.html

The latest news is that regardless of possible technical glitches, the weather is likely to be bad until early next week. Stay tuned.

Answer 2

Hawks is on the suitable track. There are countless maneuvers that are complete by way of rigidity from the air. The TWANG - the rocking of the shuttle forward and back in simple terms earlier the launch of the clamps that carry it. The ROLL - think of a curler coaster, you in the lead automobile as you crest a hill. the roll does 2 issues, smoother for the astronauts, and shall we the SRBs and the gasoline tank take the stress of liftoff via the air. THROTTLE UP - in simple terms after the roll the engines are cut back back to permit the full assembly to acclimate itself to the pressures of launch. Then at approximately 60 to 70 seconds they get the "pass throttle up" the place they kick the engines and proceed up

Answer 3

As of right now, 9:36 pm EST Thursday.

This may change. Especially since it looks like there may be some bad weather rolling in. And sometimes there's glitches that push a launch back a day or two.

I'd watch sites like these...

http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/status.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/next_launch.html

... for updates.

The later site has a handy countdown clock.

Answer 4

go to www.nasa.com and they will have all the info for you.