Pre Launch

Wednesday morning, three of the six station crew members prepared for the new module's arrival by moving a Soyuz spacecraft to clear a docking port.

The module, called Rassvet, which means "dawn" in Russian, is equipped with an airlock and a platform for spacewalkers and holds more than three tons of U.S. supplies.

"That thing is packed to the gills with cargo inside," Moses said. If this was on the discovery cable network it would be that hoarding show..

At Kennedy Space Center, launch pad 39A was cleared much of Wednesday while liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen reactants were loaded into the orbiter's fuel cell system, which produces electricity during flight.

At 5:30 p.m. today, workers plan to open the pad's rotating gantry to its launch position, revealing Atlantis. (see the video stream..will look better around 830 pm edt 0030 GMT)

Shuttle fueling is scheduled to begin around 5 a.m. Friday. If that goes well, the astronauts should board Atlantis at 11 a.m.