Preparations are under way inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to move the space shuttle Discovery to Launch Pad 39A beginning September 20. Liftoff the STS-133 mission is targeted for November 1 at 4:40 p.m. on an 11-day flight to the International Space Station.
The crew is in the fixed-base simulator today at their training home at NASA's Johnson Space Center rehearse rendezvous and docking procedures and the installation of ELC-4 that will follow hatch opening on Flight Day 3 of the mission.
The crew is in the fixed-base simulator today at their training home at NASA's Johnson Space Center rehearse rendezvous and docking procedures and the installation of ELC-4 that will follow hatch opening on Flight Day 3 of the mission.