Thursday, April 20, 2006

Atlas fuel-loading under way

An Atlas rocket is being fueled at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today for a planned launch at 4:27 p.m.

Engineers are pumping supercold liquid oxygen into tanks aboard the 191-foot Atlas and also will be loading liquid hydrogen aboard the rocket.

No technical showstoppers are being worked and the weather forecast for launch still looks good.

The launch window today will extend through 7:16 p.m.

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