NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission: STS-129
Orbiter: Atlantis
Primary Payload: Two Control Moment Gyroscopes, EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 and 2
Launch Date: Nov. 16
Launch Time: 2:28 p.m. EST
Launch Pad: 39A
Landing: Nov. 27 - 9:47 a.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Mission Duration: 11 days
Inclination/Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles

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Image: In the Payload Changeout Room on Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A, members of the STS-129 crew, dressed in clean-room attire known as "bunny suits," take a break from their payload familiarization training for a photo. From left are Mission Specialists Leland Melvin and Robert L. Satcher Jr., Commander Charles O. Hobaugh and Mission Specialist Mike Foreman. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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STS-129 Crew Prepare for Kennedy Return and Launch
The Atlantis crew members are going into quarantine at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for the few days remaining before their flight to Kennedy on Thursday morning.

Launch pad preps also are in the final stages for space shuttle Atlantis' liftoff on Nov. 16 at 2:28 p.m. EST.

Shuttle Atlantis and its crew will deliver the Express Logistics Carrier 1 and 2, holding about 28,000 pounds of supplies and spare parts to the space station, including two control moment gyroscopes. The mission will feature three spacewalks.

The STS-129 mission will return station crew member Nicole Stott to Earth and is slated to be the final space shuttle crew rotation flight to or from the space station.

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