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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 4179917" data-attributes="member: 92282">update:Shuttle and Crew Fueling for FlightSun, 15 Mar 2009 07:50:14 PM GMTThe astronauts of STS-119 enjoyed a meal at NASA Kennedy Space Center's crew quarters while a few miles away at Launch Pad 39A, thousands of gallons of supercold propellants were pumped into the cavernous external fuel tank attached to space shuttle Discovery. Discovery is due to lift off this evening at 7:43 p.m. EDT on a mission to install the last large set of solar arrays on the International Space Station. The weather looks good for tonight's attempt, with forecasters calling for an 80 percent chance of acceptable conditions. The launch team at Kennedy is not working any technical issues at this time that could preclude a liftoff. The arrays, which give the station the look of having wings, are mounted on the last segment of the long truss that is the backbone of the station's architecture. Three other sets of arrays already have been mounted to the orbiting laboratory complex. Once unfurled, the new arrays will give the station an acre of power-producing solar cells to support the laboratories, life support and other systems the station and its crew rely on.</blockquote>

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