Discovery's right landing gear was reassembled after the replacement of its four hydraulic seals. Technicians are testing the system. Once these tests are finished on Saturday, Discovery would move Sunday from its hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building. Rollout to the launch pad could take place a week later.
One of Discovery's struts, which act as shock absorbers during the shuttle's landing, began leaking hydraulic fluid last week.
Once Discovery is in the VAB, it will be attached to its external fuel tank and two solid rocket boosters for its upcoming mission, STS-120, to the International Space Station.
While NASA managers will continue to assess the progress, the ongoing preparations would still support Discovery's Oct. 23 target launch date, according to a NASA press release.
4 comments:
I know this is a very late request but could you see if it is possible to get either cameras 049, 097, 086 or 082 for rollover and subsequent lift to mate?
For rollover, camera 042 should give the best view.
Then the channel that is being fed camera 042 could then be switched over to camera 082(the transfer aisle camera from which we saw Endeavour being lifted from).
Another channel could be hooked up to camera 086 which has a great over view of the intertank section where the bipod struts are located.
Forget cameras , NASA is afraid the replacements will screw up so they have been blacking out the cameras instead of smacking USA into ending the strike .
We get very tired of the trash the IAM members put on this blog
with no facts too back them up.
Get lost find a job.
NASA SAVE THE DELTA II PROGRAM.
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