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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 4178261" data-attributes="member: 92282">update:  Mission Management Team Gives "go" for FuelingSun, 15 Mar 2009 02:06:54 PM GMTThe Mission Management Team met at 9:45 a.m. EDT and assessed Discovery's readiness to proceed with fueling the external tank for today's 7:43 p.m. launch. Managers gave a "go" to begin the fueling operation on time at 10:18 a.m. During the three-hour process, more than 500,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen will be loaded into the tank. At 12:33 p.m., the liquid hydrogen portion of the tank will enter "topping" mode, about the point in the process when a hydrogen leak was detected during Wednesday's launch attempt. Discovery's astronauts awoke for launch at 9 a.m. and ate breakfast at 9:30 a.m. The astronauts will undergo final medical checks at 10:30 a.m., receive a weather briefing from Mission Control in Houston at 3:13 P.M., don their launch and entry suits at 3:23 p.m. and depart for the launch pad at 3:53 p.m. Launch coverage of the STS-119 mission is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m.</blockquote>

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