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# US storms: bad weather threatens to delay Endeavour's final flight
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## Cloudy weather and strong winds have increased the likelihood of the launch
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of the space shuttle Endeavour being delayed from 20 to 30 per cent.
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7:00AM BST 29 Apr 2011
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The penultimate shuttle liftoff is drawing hundreds of thousands of onlookers
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to the area around Cape Canaveral, including President Barack Obama and his
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family who plan to watch it from Kennedy Space Center later today.
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The 30-year space shuttle program will end after the final launch by Atlantis,
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planned for late June.
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The same weather front that brought deadly storms to the southern state of
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Alabama is dampening the forecast in Florida, too, though the worst should
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pass by during the morning according to Nasa weather officer Kathy Winters.
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"Our big concerns are crosswinds and (low cloud) ceilings lingering in the
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area," Ms Winters said.
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Nasa said the service structure around the shuttle will be rolled away at 2300
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GMT on Thursday, unless storm activity forces a delay.
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* [Shuttle prepares for final flight][2]
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* [Space shuttle Endeavour launches for final time][3]
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* [US storms: deadliest tornadoes][4]
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29 Apr 2011
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External tank fuelling is set to start Friday at 1022 GMT.
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Endeavour is scheduled to launch at 1947 GMT on a 14-day mission to the
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International Space Station.
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If weather forces a delay, Nasa has other launch windows set for Saturday and
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Sunday.
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The six-member crew includes one Italian astronaut from the European Space
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Agency and is commanded by US astronaut Mark Kelly, whose wife congresswoman
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Gabrielle Giffords is also going to attend the launch.
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She was shot in the head at a grocery store political meeting in January, and
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has been undergoing months of difficult rehab due to a left brain injury.
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