Candrea Thomas/STS-119 Landing Commentator Astronauts are now departing the crew transport vehicle.
Being greeted by NASA Acting Administrator Chris Scolese,
Associate Administrator for Space Operations Bill Gerstenmaier,
Deputy Program Manager for the shuttle program Leroy Cain. Astronauts will now walk around space shuttle Discovery.
Sandy Magnus will stay on the crew transport vehicle back to crew quarters at the
Operations and Checkout Building while the other six astronauts will be transported back in the Astrovan.
Commander Lee Archambault talking to Acting NASA Administrator Chris Scolese.
Michael Kuta/Integrated Landing Operations And at the top of the screen you can see a good view there
of the flight crew equipment destow vehicle as it docks to the orbiter white room.
And to the left of the screen, you'll see on the right-hand orbiter maneuvering system, OMS pod.
Technicians will be installing universal throat-plug assemblies.
And to the up-firing thrusters on the right-hand OMS pod.
Destow operations for flight crew equipment payload experiments are continuing in the crew module.
Orbiter safing operations are continuing with the orbiter test conductor and the spacecraft operator in the crew module.
And on the runway, the runway protection installation continues,
as well as forward cups and liners and preparations for towing the vehicle.
Lee Archambault/STS-119 Commander Hi, I'm Lee Archambault from the STS-119 crew
and we're very happy to be back here in Florida.
We want to certainly thank all the people at the Kennedy Space Center for
No. 1 getting Discovery ready for launch -- fighting through some technical glitches before we launched even,
but they got is ready and they got us launched safely.
We had a very successful mission. Very proud that we were able to bring up the S6 truss,
the final power segment for the International Space Station.
And we're very, very happy we were able to bring Discovery right back here to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
So to everyone at the Kennedy Space Center, thank you very much for the great job
leading up the launch and thank you very much for coming out here today. Take care.
Candrea Thomas/STS-119 Landing Commentator The astronauts will now get on the silver Astrovan,
where they'll be transported back to crew quarters in the
Operations and Checkout Building. And as you can see, the astronauts are now departing the Shuttle Landing Facility.