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Launch team reports no issues.

The support structure known as the strongback is moving away from the rocket into launch position.

Countdown continues on track.

The Falcon 9’s engines are being conditioned to handle the supercold liquid oxygen that will run through them during launch and ascent.

The Dragon spacecraft is on battery power. It will charge its batteries once in space by deploying a pair of solar arrays.

Tonight’s countdown is proceeding as planned.

We are 20 minutes away from tonight’s liftoff of the CRS-9 mission to the International Space Station.

Refined kerosene fuel and liquid oxygen are being loaded into the first and second stages of the Falcon 9 rocket as we progress toward an on-time liftoff at 12:45 a.m. EDT.

Tonight’s launch will carry a 1,020-pound docking ring to the International Space Station that will become an integral element of the station as well as a new generation of spacecraft including two in development with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program: Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon.

SpaceX Launch Conductor Ty Morton polled his team and has given a “go” to fuel the Falcon 9 rocket for launch. Propellant will be pumped into the first and second stages of the rocket. Everything remains on course to launch the Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:45:29 a.m. EDT Monday.