Airglow above Earth's horizon and solar array panels add color to this scene of a portion of the International Space Station as the orbiting complex is docked with the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Space Shutle Discovery
A close-up view of Discovery's tail section is featured in this image that was taken during a backflip maneuver as the shuttle approached the International Space Station. The image provides views of the shuttle's main engines, orbital maneuvering system pods, vertical stabilizer and the Harmony node in the payload bay.
LSRA taking off
Taking off on a flight from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, is NASA's Landing Systems Research Aircraft, a modified Convair (CV) 990. A new landing gear test fixture representative of the shuttle's landing gear system had been installed in the lower fuselage of the CV-990 test aircraft between the aircraft's normal main landing gear.
Space shuttle Discovery, Sept. 30
Space shuttle Discovery arrived at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, resting on the hardstand by 1:15 p.m. The shuttle began its slow 3.4-mile journey to the pad atop the crawler transporter at 6:47 a.m., leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building in the early morning darkness.
Also at the pad is the payload canister containing the Harmony module that the STS-120 crew will deliver to the International Space Station. Harmony will be installed in Discovery's payload bay as launch preparations continue at the pad.
Discovery and its seven astronaut crew are targeted to launch Oct. 23 on the STS-120 mission to the International Space Station.
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