Space shuttle Discovery is lowered into position beside its external tank and solid rocket boosters inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Discovery rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, where the shuttle’s external tank and two solid rocket boosters awaited, and was then lifted to vertical inside the building’s 50-story-tall transfer aisle, lowered into a high bay and joined with the tank and boosters atop the mobile launcher platform.
Discovery is slated to launch on the STS-124 mission on May 31, the second of three flights to deliver components of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station.
Mark Kelly will command the seven-member crew.Image Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann