LIVE Mission Journal: (Hurricane Emily) Tile damage repaired (Florida Today)

LIVE Mission Journal: Tile damage repaired (Florida Today)
Complete FLORIDA TODAY coverage delivered to your door. Subscribe now. 7 p.m. The problem with the damaged tiles is apparently resolved, according to a NASA spokesman. We'll get more details in a press conference in a half-hour, but the good news is, there should be no impact to the launch.

Commentary: FCAT even shadows shrinking summer (Palm Beach Post)
It's only July, but I'm already tired of hurricanes. How many times can we watch the same guy from CNN get blown around on TV? Someone should start a new reality show and administer the man an IQ test.

Grenada About To Be Hit By Second Hurricane in Ten Months (PR Web)
After being devastated by Hurricane Ivan last year, Grenada is about to be hit by Hurricane Emily. CrisisShield is a non-profit organisation helping the one-third of the population who are still homeless. [PRWEB Jul 13, 2005]

LIVE Mission Journal:Weather still 70 percent "go" (Florida Today)
Complete FLORIDA TODAY coverage delivered to your door. Subscribe now. 10:48 a.m. There's a new twist in the long-term weather forecast - a tropical depression forecast to become Hurricane Emily and threaten Florida.

LIVE Mission Journal: Tile damage repaired (Florida Today)
Complete FLORIDA TODAY coverage delivered to your door. Subscribe now. 11:06 p.m. The Rotating Service Structure is fully retracted now, exposing Discovery on the launch pad. The countdown also has resumed though there are several more built-in holds overnight.

Hurricane Emily? Say it isn't so (GJ Sentinel)
Hurricane Emily? WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. The tropical depression that soon may be named Emily was slicing toward the Caribbean on Monday, following a path expected to take it to Haiti by the weekend.

Shuttle set but loose ends remain (BBC News)
Space shuttle Discovery is still on course for a Wednesday launch, despite some unresolved issues, mission managers say.

Damage from Dennis less than officials first feared (The Fayette Citizen)
Some might surmise since the damage estimate left in the wake of Hurricane Dennis was only a half-million dollars and climbing, that Fayette County dodged a bullet where Sunday s storm is concerned.

Discovery Still Go for Launch (Spectrum Online)
Cape Canaveral, Fla., 12 July 2005 Almost obscured in the haze, the space shuttle Discovery sits on its launchpad in the stifling heat and humidity of the Florida summer, but most eyes are on the skies at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, as the countdown continues for a Wednesday launch.

New Storm Could Cloud Shuttle's Horizon (MSNBC)
The weather forecast for the shuttle Discovery's launch looks good this week, but could turn darker next week if it had to be delayed, NASA said.