NASA has Monday May 16 at 8:57 a.m. as the new launch date for STS-134 Shuttle Endeavour.
Repairs and testing of the faulty electrical circuits on Shuttle Endeavour were completed over the weekend. Launch directors feel that the problems have been corrected and the necessary safety margins are once again in place to re-start the countdown to launch.
STS-134 crew returned to quarantine at Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX) on Monday. They will fly back to Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral, FL) later this week. The two extra days have been locked into the mission, so there will be a 16 day schedule for STS-134. During the time that Endeavour is docked at the ISS, one of the two Soyuz capsules will undock and return to Earth, carrying Dimitry Kondratyev, Paulo Nespoly, and Cady Coleman.
For more details, watch Monday's briefing by KSC Launch Directors.
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