STS-99 Countdown Status Briefing

After an introduction by Bruce Buckingham (NASA Public Affairs), participants Jeff Spaulding (NASA Test Director, Scott Higginbotham (STS-99 Payload Manager), and Ed Priselac (Shuttle Weather Officer) proceed with the countdown status briefing. They expressed that the opening countdown was proceeding well and servicing of the cryotanks was completed. The launch pad closeouts continued and the tanking process was in order. There was a card failure in the data handling processor, so a backup system was used.