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NASA Preparing Atlantis For Monday Rollout

In the Vehicle Assembly Building, shuttle Atlantis is lowered onto the mobile launcher platform, where it will be joined to the external tank and solid rocket boosters already in place. Image credit: NASA/Troy Cryder
by Staff Writers
 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 27, 2006
 NASA technicians are preparing space shuttle Atlantis for its four-mile journey to Launch Pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Monday, July 31, the agency announced Wednesday. First motion is scheduled for 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time. Atlantis' launch window begins Aug. 28 for an 11-day mission to the International Space Station.

The fully assembled space shuttle vehicle, consisting of the orbiter, external tank and twin solid rocket boosters, will be mounted on a mobile launcher platform and delivered to the pad via a crawler transporter. The process is expected to take approximately six hours, NASA said.

NASA TV will provide live coverage of the roll out beginning at 6 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday as Atlantis approaches the launch pad.

The STS-115 mission launch window will run through Sept. 7. After that, a launch would conflict with a Soyuz mission scheduled to fly to the ISS in mid-September.

If the mission goes according to plan, the Atlantis crew is scheduled to install the Port 3/4 truss segment with its two large solar arrays on the station.

The STS-115 crew consists of commander Brent W. Jett Jr., pilot Christopher J. Ferguson, mission specialists Heidemarie M. Stefanyshyn-Piper, Joseph R. Tanner, Daniel C. Burbank and Steven G. MacLean, who represents the Canadian Space Agency.

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NASA Warms Up Atlantis For STS-115
 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 26, 2006
 NASA engineers have moved space shuttle Atlantis to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for transfer to the launch pad early next week.
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