
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building, a fisheye lens captures Space Shuttle Atlantis as it is lifted from its External Tank_Solid Rocket Booster stack. The orbiter will be lowered into the transfer aisle and rolled back to Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1. Once in the OPF, processing will begin for mission STS-115, the 19th flight to the International Space Station. The tank, ET-120, is the first redesigned ET to arrive at KSC and will undergo further testing before Return to Flight mission STS-121 next year.
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September 2, 2005
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