What is the current schedule for the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis?”
NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center at 2:01 p.m. EDT today (Monday, May 11). As of mid-morning, NASA says the weather is good and there’s a 90 percent chance of it remaining so. You can watch the shuttle launch live here as it happens. Space Shuttle Atlantis: The Mission The space shuttle Atlantis will be traveling to the Hubble Space Telescope in what’s considered the “final space shuttle mission” to service the equipment. The crew will spend 11 days working on the telescope, installing two new instruments and repairing two inactive ones. The repairs are designed to keep the Hubble Space Telescope running through at least 2014.