Crew Ready for Station Rendezvous and Docking

The seven-member crew of STS-120 on board Space Shuttle Discovery is ready for Thursday’s rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station. The STS-120 crew members completed Wednesday's scheduled inspections of Space Shuttle Discovery’s heat shield before noon EDT. They used Discovery’s robotic arm and an attached boom extension to check the spacecraft’s underside, nose cap and leading edges of the wings as well as hard to reach shuttle surfaces. More

(Source: NASA - Oct 25)