As Testing Continues, Rollout Preps Start

Technicians working inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are continuing the careful testing of space shuttle Discovery's connections to its launch stack today. The orbiter has been connected to an external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters and is in its launch position, with its nose pointed to the sky. The stack will be moved to the launch pad Sept. 20. The preparations for the move are slated to begin today. Discovery's liftoff on STS-133 is targeted for Nov. 1 at 4:40 p.m. EDT.

At NASA's Johnson Space Center, the STS-133 crew will practice procedures for the mission's second spacewalk in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory today.