At the last moment, NASA reversed the decision to bring the Atlantis spacecraft back to the launch platform

Five hours after starting to move the Atlantis spacecraft to the spaceship house, NASA reversed its decision after it was reported that Typhoon Ernesto would weaken when it swept through Florida. This is an unprecedented decision of NASA in about 15 times forced to return the spacecraft back to the VAB container house for a number of reasons in the past.

With this historic decision, NASA has another 1-2 days to prepare for the launch of Atlantis next week. Currently Atlantis is safely covered by strong winds at the launch rig 39B with a 130-foot tall steel structure block.

Dr. Bruce Vu, a Vietnamese-based space engineer at Kennedy Space Center, recently emailed Thanh Nien, saying: " This morning, Atlantis is on his way back to the spaceship, NASA officials change I mean, order the tank to turn around 180 degrees, bring the ship back to the launch platform, the reason why Typhoon Ernesto has weakened so much, it no longer threatens to launch the train, this is good news, because it has meaning Atlantis still has a chance to enter orbit before September 7, 2006 ".

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