Technicians will conduct leak checks today on the quick disconnects for space shuttle Discovery’s forward reaction control system and auxiliary power units. The shuttle is at Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the launch site of all the shuttle missions.
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, training home to the astronauts, the STS-133 crew will practice procedures in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory for the mission’s first spacewalk.