CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery, atop the mobile launcher platform, wends its way past a wildflower-edged canal on the slow journey to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. First motion out of the Vehicle Assembly Building was at 5:17 EST. Discovery was secured to the pad at 12:16 Discovery is targeted to launch to the International Space Station Feb. 12. During Discovery's 14-day mission, the crew will install the S6 truss segment and its solar arrays to the starboard side of the station, completing the station's backbone, or truss, e
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery, atop the mobile launcher platform, wends its way past a wildflower-edged canal on the slow journey to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. First motion out of the Vehicle Assembly Building was at 5:17 EST. Discovery was secured to the pad at 12:16 Discovery is targeted to launch to the International Space Station Feb. 12. During Discovery's 14-day mission, the crew will install the S6 truss segment and its solar arrays to the starboard side of the station, completing the station's backbone, or truss, enabling a six-person crew to live there starting in May.
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