NASA says the current weather conditions violate the rules for Shuttle Launch. The new schedule for NASA's shuttle launch is set for Monday.
There were only minutes before the Shuttle launch, but the storms, moving from the West, violated NASA's safety rules. NASA says in case of an emergency there wouldn't be a ready to go runway to land Endeavour.
NASA tweeted saying that "The shuttle has a very small launch window in order to put it into the right orbit to rendezvous with the space station." This is why, probably they can't launch any time sooner than say Monday. In another Tweet NASA wrote that "It typically takes between 45 minutes to one hour to get the crew out of the shuttle after a launch scrub."
Space shuttle Endeavour's STS-127 launch now is scheduled for July 13 at 6:51 p.m. EDT.
Officials at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida called off Sunday's planned liftoff due to inclement weather. Cumulus clouds and lightning violated rules for launching Endeavour because of weather near the Shuttle Landing Facility. The runway would be needed in the unlikely event that Endeavour would have to make an emergency landing back at Kennedy.
Monday's live countdown coverage will begin at 1:30 p.m on NASA Television and NASA's Launch Blog.
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