STS-125 Mission Update – May 5, 2009

STS-125 Crew in Final Training

The STS-125 astronauts are set to arrive in Florida on Friday. Today in the motion base simulator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, they will participate in some final training in preparation for their mission to service NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The crew began the standard prelaunch quarantine last night. Follow Mission Specialist Mike Massimino’s personal account of training for the mission at http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike.

With the launch of space shuttle Atlantis less than one week away, preparations at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A are in the final stages. Liftoff is scheduled for May 11 at 2:01 p.m. EDT.