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<\/em><\/font>NASASpaceflight.com has started live coverage of the event, with expert commentary, images, video and source information provided on the link below.<\/p>\n<\/font><\/em>**STS-121: Launch Attempt 3: July 4 LIVE Update Page**<\/font><\/font> \u2013 One stop LIVE updates.<\/font> External Tank Weather<\/font> <\/font>Orbiter <\/font>Range.<\/font><\/font> LOX Inlet Temp issues: Source: \u2018We\u2019ll still go is my bet. These XDucerrs are located where the MPS 12-inch Feedline meets the LOX inlet Low pressure Turbo pumps and are an LCC req. for proceeding. Pratt and Rocketdyne can fly but the pumps will be stressed like they were in a Qual run. The pumps are very tough.\u2019<\/p>\n KEY POINTS: ET sources:.Tank loading was very clean with no issues noted. No problems with the ECO sensors (inc. 5 percent sensors). No frosting observed on Ice\/Frost Ramps.<\/p>\n Weather projected to be green at time of launch. All looking good for launch.<\/p>\n <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n ISS prepare for Discovery\u2019s arrival.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n While NASA continues to work towards what will only be the second flight of the Shuttle since the Columbia disaster, preparations on the International Space Station have concluded, as Pavel Vinogradov and Jeff Williams await the arrival of Discovery on July 6 \u2013 should today\u2019s launch proceed as planned.<\/p>\n Over the past few days, both crewmembers spent 90 minutes each for continuing to collect and prepack hardware slated for return on the Shuttle. <\/p>\n In the Lab module, Williams set up the RWS (Robotics Work Stations) and DOUG (Dynamic Onboard Ubiquitous Graphics) software for the upcoming SSRMS (Space Station Remote Manipulator System) activities, specifically for the OBSS (Orbiter Boom Sensor System) grappling on FD3. <\/p>\n According to the ISS On Orbit status reports, DOUG is a software application that provides a graphical birdseye-view image of the external station configuration and the SSRMS, showing its real-time location and configuration on a laptop during its operation.<\/p>\n Vinogradov prepared PBA (Portable Breathing Apparatus) stowage by removing the PBA units from their ZSR (Zero-G Stowage Rack) lockers and placing them back in the RS (Russian segment), preparing them for the PBA tank to be delivered on ULF1.1. Williams meanwhile started the repressurization process on PMA-2 (Pressurized Mating Adapter #2) in preparation for ingress and stowage after the Shuttle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrival.<\/p>\n Afterwards, Williams hooked up VTR (Video Tape Recorder) bypass cable connections such that video can pass to and from the station on the Lab\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s starboard side during the docked period and the station can also receive video from the Orbiter on the port side of the Lab. 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