KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- With the payload successfully installed inside, the payload bay doors on Space Shuttle Discovery are closing. Seen here are the SPACEHAB module at left, the P5 truss in the center, service module debris panels and the Space Test Program experiment canister on the integrated cargo carrier at right. The shuttle is on Launch Pad 39B, ready for launch on mission STS-116 scheduled no earlier than Dec. 7. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date November 16, 2006