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STS-135 Crew Join Rollover
NASA – STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson (left), Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim, and Pilot Doug Hurley pause for a photo while watching shuttle Atlantis’ rollover from Orbiter Processing Facility-1 to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The move called “rollover” is a major milestone in processing for the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station. Inside the VAB, the shuttle will be attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
Atlantis Photo Op
Members of the media and Kennedy employees watch as shuttle Atlantis makes its final move into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin May 17, 2011
Sling Attached for Lift
This overhead view photographed in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, shows workers attaching a crane to shuttle Atlantis.
The crane will lift the spacecraft into a high bay where it will be attached to the waiting external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, which are already on the mobile launcher platform. Photo credit: NASA/Ken Thornsley
Atlantis Suspended
In the Vehicle Assembly Building shuttle Atlantis is suspended over the transfer aisle by an overhead crane. Atlantis then will be lifted vertically and moved into a high bay where it will be attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters already on the mobile launcher platform. Photo credit: NASA/Ken Thornsley May 18, 2011
Atlantis Lifted to High Bay
In the Vehicle Assembly Building shuttle Atlantis is lifted by an overhead crane and moved into a high bay where it will be attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters already on the mobile launcher platform.
STS-135 is the 33rd flight of Atlantis, the 37th shuttle mission to the space station, and the 135th and final mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder
Atlantis Lowered to MLP
Shuttle Atlantis is lowered by an overhead crane into a high bay where it will be attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters already on the mobile launcher platform.
Atlantis Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder
Atlantis on MLP
Shuttle Atlantis is lowered onto the mobile launcher platform where it will be joined with its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters in preparation for its move, or “rollout,” to Launch Pad 39A. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder
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