KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From inside the Payload Changeout Room, Launch Pad 39B, a technician monitors the closing of the payload bay doors in Space Shuttle Discovery. Visible is the Integrated Cargo Carrier at top and the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo below. Discovery is scheduled to launch March 8 at 6:42 a.m. EST on STS-102, the eighth construction flight to the International Space Station. The primary delivery system used to resupply and return Station cargo requiring a pressurized environment, Leonardo will deliver up to 10 tons of laboratory racks filled with equipment, experiments and supplies for outfitting the newly installed U.S. Laboratory Destiny
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date March 5, 2001