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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology NASA readies space shuttle Atlantis for launch AFP - Monday, November 16 Send IM Story Print The space shuttle Atlantis and service structure are reflected in a pond as it is prepared for a launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA is readying the craft and its crew of seven astronauts for an imminent launch to deliver a load of spare parts to the International Space Station. WASHINGTON (AFP) - – The US space agency was readying the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts for an imminent launch to deliver a load of spare parts to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff is set for 2:28 pm (1928 GMT) Monday from the Kennedy Space Center near Florida's Cape Canaveral, NASA said Saturday. "Atlantis is ready to go, in really great shape," said shuttle launch manager Mike Moses at a press conference broadcast on NASA television. "We're right on the money," added Mike Leinbach, space shuttle launch director. "We're not tracking any issues with the vehicle, flight elements or ground systems. I'm happy to report we're ready to go." Chief launch meteorologist Kathy Winters also confirmed that "weather should be very good" at Kennedy Space Center on Monday, and said there was just a ten-percent chance of weather prohibiting the launch. Weather conditions were also favorable at two of the three emergency landing sites in Europe where the shuttle would head if the mission were to be aborted after it was t too far for a return glide to Cape Canaveral. The three-hour procedure of fueling the shuttle's huge external tank with liquid hydrogen and oxygen is due to start at 5:00 am (1000 GMT). Led by Marine Corps colonel Charlie Hobaugh, the all-male crew arrived Thursday at Kennedy Space Center from Houston, Texas, where the astronauts are based. They will wake at 4:30am (0930 GMT) and board the shuttle at 11:08am (1608 GMT). The 11-day space outing, to be the fifth and last shuttle mission for 2009, is set to include three spacewalks aimed at storing space hardware on the exterior of the ISS. The delivery of spare parts to the orbiting outpost is designed to keep the orbiting outpost in service after the shuttle fleet is retired. Atlantis will also bring back US astronaut Nicole Scott, who has served as flight engineer on the ISS since August. There are just five more shuttle launches scheduled before the planned September 2010 retirement of the fleet. "This flight is all about spares -- basically, we're getting them up there while we still can," Brian Smith, space station flight director for the 0mission, said in a statement released by NASA. "You'll see this theme in some of the flights that are going to come after ours as well," Smith added. In total, NASA said some 27,250 pounds (12,360 kilograms) of spares will be delivered -- including two control moment gyroscopes, used in maneuvering the station. The White House could still decide to extend the program through 2011 to reduce US reliance on Russia's Soyuz craft for astronaut transport to the ISS while the future Orion capsules are being built. NASA's human space flight program, however, is at great risk of being grounded as it remains too underfunded to keep aloft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's yearly budget is about 18 billion dollars, 10 billion dollars of which are plowed into the human space flight program, chiefly in developing the successor of the space shuttle: the Ares 1 rocket and the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. The Augustine Committee, a panel tasked with assessing the future of US human space flight, has said an additional three billion dollars a year are needed for NASA to meet Constellation program goals or take human space flight the next step beyond the existing ISS. Late last month NASA successfully launched the prototype Ares I-X, the tallest rocket ever built, as part of its effort to build a new generation of space rocket to transport the Orion capsule. Orion, which won't be ready at least until 2015, is initially being designed to take a crew of up to six astronauts on flights to the International Space Station, or a crew of four on lunar missions lasting up to 210 days. 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