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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- United Space Alliance technician Gene Peavler performs pull tests on newly installed gap fillers. The test now requires three pulls at five pounds each, versus the previous testing of one pull at one-half pound. Discovery is being processed in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. This work is being performed due to two gap fillers that were protruding from the underside of Discovery on the first Return to Flight mission, STS-114. New installation procedures have been developed to ensure the gap fillers stay in place and do not pose any hazard during the shuttle's re-entry to the atmosphere. Discovery is the scheduled orbiter for the second space shuttle mission in the return-to-flight sequence.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- United Space Alliance technician Gene Peavler performs pull tests on newly installed gap fillers. The test now requires three pulls at five pounds each, versus the previous testing of one pull at one-half pound. Discovery is being processed in Orbiter Processing Facility Bay 3 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. This work is being performed due to two gap fillers that were protruding from the underside of Discovery on the first Return to Flight mission, STS-114. New installation procedures have been developed to ensure the gap fillers stay in place and do not pose any hazard during the shuttle's re-entry to the atmosphere. Discovery is the scheduled orbiter for the second space shuttle mission in the return-to-flight sequence.