Buy this STS129 Atlantis On Pad Photo. High quality Space Shuttle picture, slide, or Duratrans backlit transparency. NASA photograph KSC-2009-5444. Wide variety of sizes. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the mobile launcher platform, on which space shuttle Atlantis sits, straddles the flame trench on Launch Pad 39A. First motion on the 3.4-mile journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building, known as rollout, was at 6:38 a.m. EDT October 14th. The rollout took about six hours, and the shuttle was secure or "hard down" on the pad at 1:31 p.m. Liftoff of Atlantis on its STS-129 mission to the International Space Station is targeted for November 12th. Date: October 14, 2009 Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett |
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