Discovery's crew jetted back to Houston after Friday's launch scrub, but Endeavour astronauts have taken their place at Kennedy Space Center. The six-man crew assigned to fly what is still the last scheduled mission, on Feb. 27, is visiting today and Tuesday for training.
The training is intended to familiarize the crew with orbiter systems and the mission's payloads, most importantly a particle physics detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
Mark Kelly leads the crew, which includes pilot Gregory H. Johnson and mission specialists Michael Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori.
Kelly's twin brother, Scott, is a flight engineer on the International Space Station, and the two would meet in space if Endeavour's launch stays on schedule.
IMAGE: In the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 1, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) is positioned at a 180-degree angle to provide better access for work to be performed on its avionics box. Credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
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