NASA's STS-115 Prelaunch Briefing

Pressed for time... with a full and complex set of tasks ahead... the space shuttle Atlantis is once again set for a Friday morning launch. This... after five launch scrubs.

Some were caused by weather -- but Wednesday's launch was terminated because of a glitch in a small electric pump motor that supplies coolants to one of the shuttle's three fuel cells. NASA says even though this doesn't qualify as a violation of its launch criteria, it scrubbed Wednesday's launch because they were truly baffled by the glitch.

Thursday night, mission managers briefed reporters on their plans to go ahead with the countdown toward a Friday launch... even though they're still just as unsure of the glitch as they were earlier in the week. Let's listen in to Thursday night's briefing.

This feature is in addition to our daily news briefing -- available in either a quick "Touch And Go" format, or an expanded Aero-Briefing -- where you'll hear these stories:

Atlantis is ready to go... again...

High times, or desperate times at Northwest? Hundreds of flight attendants are about to be recalled from furlough.

And Israel promises this is the end of its air blockade over Lebanon....

...And more.

ANN Daily Touch N Go: 09.08.06 (ANN's Short-Form Daily News Program)

ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 09.08.06 (ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program)

ANN Special Feature -- NASA Says "Go" For Atlantis: 09.08.06 (ANN Special Feature, with Thursday's prelaunch briefing for STS-115.)

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