Bathed in bright xenon lights, space shuttle Discovery makes its nighttime trek, known as 'rollout', from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will take the shuttle, attached to its external fuel tank, twin solid rocket boosters and mobile launcher platform, about six hours to complete the move atop a crawler-transporter. STS-133 Discovery rollout

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