They arrived at the press accreditation center right before 8 in the morning to receive their badges. From there, there were a few security clearances that they still had to make it through, but now they're on-site at the media center at KSC!
The main difference between this trip to KSC as opposed to the last one is that they have MTSU's production truck.
With it the crew plans to tape a live-to-tape thirty minute show to send out to various media outlets in hopes for more coverage on their endeavors. That taping will take place sometime today and it will highlight all of the students who are involved in this project and are here on the second trip to NASA. The taping will focus primarily on their experiences at NASA and their feelings on the tremendous opportunity that MTSU has provided them to be here.
Besides that though, the launch tomorrow is one of the last 7 shuttle launches. After the shuttle is retired the Constellation program will take it's place and feature rockets such as the ARES IX and ARES IV. The crew was fortunate enough to see the first test launch of the ARES IX on the last trip.
The shuttle launch tomorrow is scheduled to shoot off around 2:33 in the afternoon. This particular mission will include three spacewalks and the installation of two platforms to the station's truss, or backbone. Also on this launch, they will be bringing back home a crew member that has been aboard the orbiting laboratory for the past two months. This crew rotation at the space station will be the last one.
To say the least the crew has a lot in store for them this time around at Kennedy Space Center, and as one of the professors of the class Dan Pfeifer says, "We're gonna fly tomorrow!"
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