Space shuttle Discovery’s right-hand OMS pod will be taken off the spacecraft today inside Orbiter Processing Facility-3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The pod, one of two on the shuttle, will be trucked to the Hypergolic Maintenance Facility on Friday. Technicians are continuing their detailed processing for Discovery ahead of the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for Sept. 16.
The astronauts for the flight are rehearsing the first spacewalk in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab, a large pool near Johnson Space Center in Houston that lets spacewalkers practice for the weightless environment of space.