Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida are to install the main landing gear wheel and tire assembly Friday on space shuttle Discovery as launch processing moves along for the STS-133 mission, targeted to launch Nov. 1. The processing team is also installing the heat shields for the main engines, a step which will wrap up next week.
The six astronauts who will fly Discovery to the International Space Station are training at Kennedy through Saturday with the actual flight hardware they will use on the mission. The training is called the CEIT, for Crew Equipment Interface Test.