Image: Discovery at Launch Pad (STS0133)
Description: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery is attached to Launch Pad 39A as the sun rises over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It took the spacecraft about six hours to make the journey, known as "rollout", from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad. Rollout sets the stage for Discovery's STS-133 crew to practice countdown and launch procedures during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test in mid-October. Targeted to liftoff Nov. 1, Discovery will take the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2 (R2) to the International Space Station.
Title: Discovery at Launch Pad (STS0133)
Credit: (Original text: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html) Persistent source: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=48712
Author: NASA/Jack Pfaller
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