Discovery cargo transferred to transporter

The prime payload for NASA's second post-Columbia shuttle mission now is resting in a transporter that will haul it out to Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B next week.

Crane operators in the Space Station Processing Facility hoisted the Leonardo cargo module out of a work stand and then into the payload transporter during the day today. The transporter will head out to the launch pad next Tuesday. Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to join it at the pad on May 19.