KSC-98EC-0534 - Astronaut Frank Caldeiro in front of Discovery as it rolls out of the OPF 


Astronaut Fernando (Frank) Caldeiro poses in front of the orbiter
Discovery as it rolls out of KSC's Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 2
en route to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). Once inside the VAB,
Discovery will be hoisted upright into a vertical position to be mated
with an orange external tank and two white solid rocket boosters. Once
mated, the orbiter becomes the Space Shuttle Discovery, slated for
launch on STS-91, the ninth and final docking mission with the Russian
Space Station Mir.  The six-member crew of STS-91 will dock with Mir
and pick up Mission Specialist Andrew Thomas, Ph.D., who will have
been on Mir about four months, to return him to Earth. STS-91 is
scheduled to launch June 2 at about 6:04 p.m. EDT.

 
                                               04/27/98