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Image: Crawler transporter with Atlantis on the ramp to pad 39A

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Description: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler-transporter, slowly makes its way up the ramp to the hardstand on Launch Pad 39A. At left is the fixed service structure, with the 80-foot lightning mast on top, and the open rotating service structure. Between them is the water tower, containing 300 gallons of water used for sound suppression at liftoff. First motion of the shuttle out of the Vehicle Assembly Building was at 8:19 a.m. The 3.4-mile trip to the pad along the crawlerway takes about 6 hours. The mission payload aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis is the S3/S4 integrated truss structure, along with a third set of solar arrays and batteries. The crew of six astronauts will install the truss to continue assembly of the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for March 15
Title: Crawler transporter with Atlantis on the ramp to pad 39A
Credit: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=31293
Author: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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