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: At Launch Pad 39A, Atlantis is ready for the transfer of the cargo for the STS-129 mission into its payload bay. The canister containing the payload - Express Logistics Carriers 1 and 2 - sits in the Payload Changeout Room on the pad's rotating service structure, at left. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
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Payload in Atlantis' Bay
At Kennedy's Launch Pad 39A, the STS-129 mission's cargo was moved into the shuttle's payload bay. Final preps and tests are being conducted to ready space shuttle Atlantis for its flight to the International Space Station set for 2:28 p.m. EST Nov. 16.

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.

Shuttle Atlantis and its crew will deliver EXPRESS Logistics Carriers 1 and 2 to the space station, including two control moment gyroscopes. The mission will feature three spacewalks.

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