It looks like the weather prospects have improved for the launch today–now only a forty percent chance of getting weathered out, as opposed to earlier estimates of sixty percent. We may drive up and try to see it from Cocoa Beach or Titusville. If they don’t go today, it may be several days before they get better weather, because there’s a tropical wave coming into Florida tonight from the Caribbean. But a successful launch today would be like an early Fourth of July.

Note also that today is the hundred fifty third anniversary of the start of the Battle of Gettysburg.