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[b]Atlas V Arrives (Back) at the Pad[/b] The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is perched atop Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41 for Tuesday's (Aug. 3) launch of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner on the Orbital Flight Test-2 in support of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The Atlas V was transported from the Vertical Integration Facility to begin final launch preparations. The loading of RP-1, a highly refined kerosene, into the Atlas V first stage will occur later today. The Mobile Launch Platform traveled to the pad with the help of undercarriage railcars and trackmobile machines that push the entire 1.6-million-pound MLP and Atlas V rocket along tracks up the hill to the pad. The trip began with first motion at 7:23 a.m. and concluded once the MLP was secured to the pad pedestals at 8:38 a.m. EDT.
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