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Next on the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report: Space Shuttle Discovery spends a week in the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it’s mated to its external tank and solid rocket boosters… The STS-121 payloads are placed in a special canister and taken out to the launch pad… And…the space shuttle stack makes its eight-hour journey to Pad 39B atop the giant crawler transporter in preparation for launch this July_ The NASA Space Shuttle Status Report starts right now_ I'm Jeremy Graeber, NASA test director, and this is the NASA Space Shuttle Status Report. Space Shuttle Discovery stands at its launch pad at Kennedy Space Center’s Complex 39. The shuttle arrived at 8:30 p.m. Friday, May 19, on top of the giant vehicle known as the crawler transporter. Discovery was moved May 12 from Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 to the Vehicle Assembly Building, a major step toward this summer’s launch to the International Space Station. Inside the VAB, technicians and crane operators lifted Discovery to a vertical position and attached it to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. Next…the payloads that will launch aboard Discovery were loaded into the payload transportation canister inside t