At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure, or RSS, rolled back Sunday morning revealing space shuttle Discovery ready for launch. The rollback is in final preparation for Discovery’s scheduled 6:21 a.m. EDT liftoff Monday, Apr. 5 on the STS-131 mission.
The Mission Management Team plans to meet tonight around 8:15 p.m. to give Discovery its "go/no-go" decision for fueling. If given the “go”, the filling of Discovery’s external tank should begin around 9 p.m. with NASA TV’s tanking coverage scheduled to begin at 8:45 p.m.
Live launch coverage will kick off on NASA TV and on NASA’s Launch Blog at 1:15 a.m. Monday. The Launch Blog can be found at www.nasa.gov/launch and NASA TV at www.nasa.gov/ntv.