At NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A, work continues to prepare space shuttle Discovery for its STS-133 mission, targeted to launch Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT. Technicians have completed prelaunch propellant servicing operations, and the mission’s payload — the Permanent Multipurpose Module, Express Logistics Carrier 4 and an array of spare hardware — is set to be installed Thursday inside Discovery’s payload bay.
The six-person STS-133 astronaut crew will practice procedures for the missions first spacewalk today in NASA Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.