Saturday, March 14, 2009

Live at KSC: Tower Rollback To Unveil Discovery

Blogger Note 9:20 p.m.: The RSS is back in the parked position.

Blogger Note 8:47 p.m.: The rollback is under way.

NASA is preparing to start rolling back a giant service structure away from shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A.

Refresh this page frequently to see what amounts to sequential still video of Discovery being unveiled.

Discovery and seven astronauts are scheduled to blast off at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday on a mission to deliver the fourth and final set of American solar wings to the International Space Station.

An abbreviated countdown is scheduled to begin at 3:18 a.m. and external tank fuel-loading operations should follow at about 10:28 a.m.

We'll have live coverage of the fuel-loading operation beginning at 10:15 a.m. Simply click the NASA TV box at the righthand side of the page to launch our NASA TV viewer and fueling updates every half-hour.

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