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[b]On the pad![/b] Our Atlas V rocket has arrived at its Cape Canaveral launch pad for Friday's (Dec. 20) liftoff to send Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station. The Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) has been lowered onto the launch pad piers, accomplishing the "harddown" milestone at 10:43 a.m. EST on Wednesday. Over the next few hours today, umbilical connections will be made with launch pad systems, the environmental control system feeding conditioned air to the rocket and payload will be switched to facility supplies to allow the portable trailers used during rollout to be unplugged and moved away.
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