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Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Feb 11, 2011 NASA says it is stepping up countdown preparations at Kennedy Space Center for the planned Feb. 24 launch of space shuttle Discovery. Shuttle managers and engineers met Friday in the first of two readiness reviews while technicians completed final installations and tests of small pyrotechnic devices that will separate the shuttle from its mobile launcher platform, solid rocket boosters and external tank in flight, Florida Today reported. A second readiness review is set for next Friday, and NASA is expected to confirm the Feb. 24 launch date at the conclusion of that review. A three-day countdown will begin at 3 p.m. Feb. 21. The shuttle and six astronauts will launch from the space center's pad 39A on a mission to deliver an Italian-built permanent storage module to the International Space Station. The mission is scheduled to end with a landing on the Kennedy Space Center's three-mile runway on March 7.
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Second Last Shuttle Launch Campaign Grinds OnKSC FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2011 During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4. Steve Bowen replaced Tim Kopra as Mission Specialist 2 following a bicycle injury on Jan. 15 that prohibited Kopra from supporting the launch window. Bowen last flew on Atlantis in May 2010 as part of the ... read more |
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