Stock Photo - 11/13/1999 __ Space Shuttle Discovery makes the turn toward Launch Pad 39B on its 4.2_mile 6.8 kilometer trek atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler transporter. Once at the pad, the orbiter, external tank and solid rocket boosters will undergo final preparations for the STS_103 launch targeted for Dec. 6, 1999, at 2:37 a.m. EST. The mission is a call_up due to the need to replace and repair portions of the Hubble Space Telescope. Although Hubble is operating normally and conducting its scientific observations, only three of its six gyroscopes are working properly. Four EVA´s are planned to make the necessary repairs and replacements on the telescope. The STS_103 crew members are Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., Pilot Scott J. Kelly, Steven L. Smith, C. Michael Foale Ph.D., John M. Grunsfeld Ph.D., and Claude Nicollier of Switzerland and Jean_François Clervoy of France, both with the European Space Agency