Space Shuttle Endeavour readies for Monday launch

In the photograph above by Robert Pearlman, space shuttle Endeavour emerges from behind the launch pad's rotating service structure. SpaceFlightNow has ongoing coverage (and live webcast of the launch), and SomaFM has a terrific ambient audio feed going. Godspeed!

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Anonymous

I was hoping that the final Shuttle launch would get the external tank painted white like the first few launches had.
Just because!
rebdav

So sad, but like the reactors also designed in the 60′s we need to move on.
My grandfather died when I was a kid so I went to a funeral instead of my seat at a shuttle launch.
DamnitDani

I like the smiley face. It makes everything better.
querent

Godspeed and good luck.
VagabondAstronomer

I will be arriving at work at approximately that time, so I’ll miss the webcast. However, I will stop and look off to the south-southeast; I’m a few counties north of KSC…