While it appears NASA managers are confident that the superb engineering effort on the LH2 Feed-through connector will mitigate any further issues that caused the delay to STS-122, the problem with one of Atlantis’ radiator hoses continues to be evaluated.
Wednesday’s final Delta Flight Readiness Review (FRR) has, however, cleared the continuation for Atlantis to press ahead for the target launch date of February 7, pending the hose evaluations over the next few days. *UPDATES FOLLOW (READ MORE)*