and we are joined here by
astronaut katy coleman, and john
zarrella.
katy spent six months on the
international space station, and
we will talk about that
throughout the hour, and also
over to chad myers at the
weather complex, and chad, what
is going on with the weather?
the sun looks like it is
starting to peek out?
>> well, only one fly in the
ointment, and there is a thick
cumulus cloud there above the
palm trees, and if that cumulus
deck is more than 4500-feet
thick, that means there might be
rain drops in the deck.
the shuttle cannot fly through
rain, and why?
because if it is wet and then
two seconds later it is high in
the sky at below zero, clearly
the water will freeze on the
shuttle and freeze underneath
the ceramic tiles.
and over to the left, you will
get rid of the cumulus deck and
have weather like this, and it
could not be better, and that is
spectacular weather.
if the weather is moving in like