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KSC-05pd-1655
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA Kennedy Space Center, the orbiter Atlantis is being raised to a vertical position. It will be lifted up and over the cross-beam into high bay 1 and mated with the Solid Rocket Boosters and External Tank already stacked there on the Mobile Launcher Platform. Atlantis is the designated orbiter for Return to Flight mission STS-121. The lighted planning window for launch extends from Sept. 9 to Sept. 25.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-1655. NASA/KSC, 2005-07-22. Public domain. ID: 05pd1655.