KSC-00PP-1492 - STS-92 Discovery after RSS roll back at Pad 39A 


The Rotating Service Structure at Launch Pad 39A rolls back, revealing
the Space Shuttle Discovery on the Mobile Launcher Platform. Discovery
is being readied for the STS-92 mission launch to the International
Space Station (ISS). The mission payload includes Integrated Truss
Structure Z-1, an early exterior framework to allow the first
U.S. solar arrays on a future flight to be temporarily installed on
Unity for early power; Ku-band communication to support early science
capability and U.S. television; and the third Pressurized Mating
Adapter to provide a Shuttle docking port for solar array installation
on the sixth ISS flight and Lab installation on the seventh ISS
flight. The 11-day mission will include four spacewalks.  Liftoff is
scheduled for Oct. 6 at 9:16 p.m. EDT.

 
                                               10/05/2000