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GEORGE DILLER: From the Mission Director's Center at Cape Canaveral,

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this is Delta Launch Control at T-100 minutes, 42 seconds and counting.

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We're now just about to enter the final two hours of the countdown for the

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launch of NASA's Phoenix spacecraft aboard a Delta II rocket. The launch

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remains targeted for 5:26 a.m. this morning from Pad A at Launch Complex 17.

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There is a second launch opportunity at 6:02 a.m. Last night, at 11

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o'clock, the gantry-like mobile service tower began to move away from the Delta II rocket.

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The team reported at the pad at about 5 o'clock yesterday

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afternoon to begin preparations for pulling back the tower, and then the

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launch team reported here to the Mission Director's Center at about 2 o'clock

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this morning in preparation to load the RP1 onto the first stage, which is a

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highly refined kerosene fuel. That operation actually began at 2:52 a.m. and

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concluded just a few moments ago at 3:11 a.m. There are now 10,003

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gallons of RP1 fuel onboard the Delta first stage. We'll begin loading the

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liquid oxygen in about another 20 minutes and we'll be hearing the polls for

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the readiness to begin LOX loading very shortly, as well as getting a weather

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briefing prior to that pickup of that loading operation. At T-97 minutes, 21

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seconds and counting, this is Delta Launch Control.

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