LIVE: STS-132 LAUNCH and FLIGHT DAY 1

• LIVE: STS-132 LAUNCH and FLIGHT DAY 1 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 05:03
• LIVE interactive coverage for Attempt 1 of Atlantis' STS-132 launch countdown.
  
  This is interactive, but will remain focused on updates. Use the other threads for items such as viewing the launch, weather and general woo hooing cheerleading posts. The site will get very busy as we get closer to launch, so please appreciate the thread needs to run on updates, not random posts.
  
  Previous STS-132 articles:
  http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/sts-132/
  
  Launch Day Article:
  http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2010/05/sts-132-launch-live1/
  
  L2 Members STS-132 Special Section:
  http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=tags&tags=STS-132
  
  
  Should Atlantis launch, this thread will continue as Flight Day 1 updates. With new threads for each of the upcoming Flight Days.
  
  Godspeed Atlantis.
  
  
• #1 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 05:21
• L-13 hours.
  
  Tanking MMT at 4:15am Eastern. Scheduled start of tanking is 4:55am Eastern.
• #2 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 08:13
• MMT are now meeting to approve tanking operations.

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• #3 by arkaska on 14 May, 2010 08:29
• Less than 10 hours to the planned launch.
• #4 by psloss on 14 May, 2010 08:30
• Nice and quiet on the net; sporadically hearing standard verification of some S0007 steps.
  
• #5 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 08:35
• GO for tanking - MMT.
• #6 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 08:38

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• #7 by psloss on 14 May, 2010 08:46
• Allard Beutel providing tanking commentary this morning.  As already reported by Chris, no issues reported currently.
  
• #8 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 08:46

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• #9 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 08:49

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• #10 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 08:49

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• #11 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 08:55
• T-minus 6 hours and counting
• #12 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 08:59
• They are already in chilldown. I assume that was Allard's "they needed to tell me they had started" open mic fun
• #13 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 09:07
• LH2 slow fill.
• #14 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 09:22
• Just over 10 minutes to SIM checks and LO2 slow fill.
• #15 by psloss on 14 May, 2010 09:24
• Aly Mendoza, NASA ET/SRB Vehicle Manager providing color commentary for the broadcast.  Just finished some 101 level questions, now going over some edited processing video.
  
• #16 by Chris Bergin on 14 May, 2010 09:25
• Sneak preview of our new site and L2 promo, don't comment on it in this thread, we'll set one up later, just a peek:
  
  
• #17 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 09:28

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• #18 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 09:35
• Lo2 slow fill scheduled to begin

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• #19 by Ronsmytheiii on 14 May, 2010 09:40
• LH2 Eco Sensors scheduled to go wet