The road to space is brightly lit for NASA’s space shuttle Discovery as it is hauled to Launch Pad 39B.

Shuttle workers hauled Discovery towards Pad 39B Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to prepare the orbiter for NASA’s STS-116 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). That mission is slated to launch on Dec. 7 to continue assembly of the orbital laboratory.

Discovery’s move began [image] at about 12:29 a.m. EST (0529 GMT) on Thursday. The shuttle’s Mobile Launch Platform settled on its Pad 39B stand at about 9:03 a.m. EST (1403 GMT) [image].

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