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Next on the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report: Time to Fly_ The crew of STS-115 has completed a final phase of training, the shuttle is at the pad and NASA officials report Space Shuttle Atlantis is ready to fly on a mission to resume construction of the International Space Station. Stay right where you are -- the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report starts right now_ Hello, I'm Ted Mosteller, NASA test director, and this is the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report, your in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at NASA's space shuttle fleet. After a thorough flight readiness review, agency officials report Space Shuttle Atlantis is ready to fly on the first day of a launch window that opens August 27. The two-day review, held at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, gave flight engineers and managers a chance to report the shuttle's readiness to agency officials. Last week, the crew of STS-115, led by Commander Brent Jett, spent a few days at Kennedy for launch-day countdown training. It was just practice, but it looked like the real thing. The astronauts even wore their famous launch and re-entry suits and traveled to the launch pad inside the astrovan. At the pad, important safety training kept the as