5:00 AM update – suiting operations/final inspection have begun; no technical problems. Still waiting on the weather.
Around 6:00 AM: Atlantis looks great. Inspections are taking place & comm checks are going on. One of Atlantis’ boosters has a case from STS 1 on it. That made me tear up…they remembered John and Bob.
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