Program FRR Today; GUCP Seal Changed

At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, teams have completed changing a seal at the ground umbilical carrier plate, or GUCP, on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank. There is no work planned for the weekend.

‪The Space Shuttle Program will hold its Flight Readiness Review today to assess the readiness of Discovery, the crew, flight and launch control teams, to proceed toward the target launch date of Thursday, Feb. 24. The meeting typically concludes with a recommendation to proceed to the agency Flight Readiness Review scheduled at Kennedy on Friday, Feb. 18.

At NASA's Johnson Space Center, STS-133 Mission Specialists Steve Bowen and Alvin Drew will rehearse procedures for the mission's first spacewalk today in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.

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