oxygen and liquid hydrogen drain bells are closed. t-minus 40 seconds. handing off to atlantis s computers at t-minus 31. minus 35. 33. t-minus 31 seconds. and we have had a failure. sequencer. retract. go ahead. we need to go through the verification for the lcc, please. all right, we need to verify using a camera and we are positioning camera 62, right now. let us know as soon as 62 is swung over and you can verify lcc.
they are getting ready to pick up the countdown. shepard: let s listen in, our hope is we begin at 31 seconds and 9 minutes here. 3 or 4 minutes left. bill: in the window. let s listen: three minutes and 16 seconds. we re ready to go. all right, very good. we ll go ahead with it. yes, sir, please do. we are going to pick up the clock momentarily. copy that. count down resumed, on my mark. 3, 2, 1. mark. t-minus. sequence start. and off to atlantis s computers, has occurred. rocket booster nozzle steering check in work. 20. firing chain is armed. 15.
30 minutes prior to launch. so again it is really touch and go at this point but we are crossing or fingers in the fox weather department. shepard: janice dean in the fox extreme weather center in new york. thank you. former astronaut, tom jones is live with us. a veteran of four space flights himself. he has flown on the shuttle endeavour, columbia and atlantis, logging 52 days in space and retired in 2001 and now a fox news contributor, former nasa astronaut, tom jones is with us and they are talking about the weather. let s listen to nasa tv, quickly. american icon, the final time, 30. good luck, god s peace. thanks to you and your team, mike and. shepard: it is a go. you made it look easy. it will always be a reflection of what a great nation can do and we re not ending the jordan. heather: we re completing a
curve, because we have flown before. shepard: from earth to hydraulic failure. back to earth. shepard: 28 minutes. 28 minutes. our guests wouldn t have left the kfc, launch and landing in 28 minutes. shepard: now the final launch and landing of the space shuttle is upon us. a sad thing to see. a lot of people s livelihoods, are around the space shuttle. shepard: are you sad. a little. it is a spectacular vehicle and will be a long time before we see a space vehicle as versatile as the shuttle, what it has done, assembly at the station, and science, and retrieval and, repair. a remarkable vehicle. when the wheels finally stop you might have to drag me off of the flight deck of shuttle atlantis, and i think only then and there will we really understand, the enormity and i ll be happy with our position that we were fortunate enough to have, being the last ones to
people have come here to watch this happen and a live look at the space shuttle and the four american astronauts preparing for this historic mission. a 12-day voyage, set to end when atlantis returns to earth on the 20th of july, 42 years to the day after man first landed on the moon. the clock you ll see at the bottom of the screen is on hold, until 17 minutes past 11:00 a.m. on the space coast, when the final countdown begins and if atlantis goes up here s what we can expect to see happen. t-6.6 seconds, nasa will start the main engine and a count down to solid rocket booster ignition and then, lift off. a little more than 8 minutes into the flight, that external fuel tank will separate, as we have seen so many times. essentially a gas tank and, the only component of the shuttle that is not reused. we re told most of it