Discovery's @ the Pad - Crew Training Continues!

NASA Image: Viewed across the waters of the Banana River at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Discovery was secured on Launch Pad 39A 12:16 p.m. EST Jan. 14. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder

As reported Thu, 15 Jan 2009 on www.nasa.gov:

Space Shuttle Discovery now sits on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida -- a major milestone met for the STS-119 mission. The approximate six-hour trip was complete at 12:16 p.m. EST Jan. 14.

The rotating service structure was moved into place around the shuttle to protect it from inclement weather and provide protected access to the orbiter for installation and servicing of payloads at the pad.

At NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the STS-119 crew members are rehearsing spacewalking techniques in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. This afternoon, Commander Lee Archambault and Pilot Tony Antonelli flew to Edwards Air Force Base in California for landing practice this evening in NASA's Shuttle Training Aircraft.