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STS-129 Payload Delivered to the Pad

Payload canister is delivered to Launch Pad 39A where space shuttle Atlantis stands.

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers monitor the lift of the canister containing the payload for space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission to the International Space Station toward the ...

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