Bit and Pieces of The Future May Be Coming (Soon?) To A Cockpit
Near You
The pleasant little town of Danville, VA, is hosting an amazing
if somewhat bewildering confab of NASA-inspired technology this
week in a locale not normally known for seeing the best and
brightest in aerospace technology.
Discovery was disconnected from its external tank and Solid
Rocket Boosters Thursday and lowered by crane onto the Orbiter
Transporter System in the Vehicle Assembly Building. The orbiter is
scheduled to move and be attached to its new tank (ET-121) on June
6th.
The International Space Station has gained the use of a new tool
this week as remote control tests for the station's robotic arm
were completed Friday. The robotics officer operated the
60-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm from ground control while the
station crew monitored the experiment.
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