Less Than One Week to Launch

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prelaunch activities are in full swing this week with the official launch countdown to space shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission set to begin at 2 a.m. EST Feb. 4. Teams at Launch Pad 39A will be packing the astronauts' spacesuits into Endeavour at present.

Meanwhile, the six STS-130 crew members who will fly to the International Space Station entered quarantine yesterday and now are on a sleep schedule to equivalent their evening and overnight work hours during the mission. They will perform final integrated ascent training in the motion base simulator today at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and will be flying to Kennedy tomorrow nighttime.

Last week, a water suppression system pipe leaked at Kennedy's Launch Control Center and workers have made progress through the weekend drying walls and carpets. This leak is not expected to hamper the liftoff of Endeavour at 4:39 a.m. EST Feb. 7.

The White House said the moon program was as well much like the 1960s Apollo mission and would need large budget increases now to get astronauts back on the moon by 2030.

In the financial plan proposal released Monday, the White House instead promised a new approach with no particulars. Obama also proposed $6 billion more than five years to encourage companies to construct private spaceships that NASA could rent.

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