Discovery's Processing Goes Smoothly Ahead of Rollover

 

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:00:08 -0500

Space shuttle Discovery continues its launch processing on pace as technicians prepare the spacecraft for its scheduled move on Sept. 8 to the Vehicle Assembly so it can be hoisted into launch position with its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. Today's work at NASA's Kennedy Space Center includes checks of the "glass cockpit" systems, known as MEDS for Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem. Technicians also are pressurizing the main landing gear.
At NASA's Johnson Space Center, STS- 133 astronauts will continue working on spacewalk procedures in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.

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