KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In NASA Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3, members of the STS-121 crew practice working with equipment for the mission. From the left are Tomas Gonzalez-Torres, with NASA's Johnson Space Center; then Mission Specialists Stephanie Wilson, Piers Sellers and Michael Fossum. Pilot Mark Kelly has his back to the camera. The crew is at Kennedy to take part in the crew equipment interface test, which provides hands-on experience with equipment to be used on-orbit. Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121, the second return-to-flight mission, is scheduled no earlier than May.
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date February 17, 2006