As space shuttle Atlantis rolls out to the pad an onlooker views its progress from inside the Launch Control Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle stack, with solid rocket boosters and attached external fuel tank, rest on the mobile launcher platform, as the crawler-transporter carries Atlantis to its destination.
As space shuttle Atlantis rolls out to the pad an onlooker views its progress from inside the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle stack, with solid rocket boosters and attached external fuel tank, rest on the mobile launcher platform, as the crawler-transporter carries Atlantis to its destination.
Atlantis is scheduled to launch on the STS-125 mission to service NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett