Launch processing for space shuttle Discovery continues in earnest at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the spacecraft, its twin solid rocket boosters and external tank are being readied for the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Today, technicians in Orbiter Processing Facility-3 expect to finish installing a carrier panel on window 3 on Discovery. Tomorrow will see testing of the Orbital Boom Sensor System. Workers will also begin installing Discovery’s three main engines tomorrow, a careful process that is expected to wrap up Friday.
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the STS-133 astronauts will practice procedures for the mission’s first spacewalk today in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.