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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis rolls toward the open doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida after rolling back from Launch Pad 39A. In the VAB, Atlantis will await launch on its STS-125 mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. First motion of Atlantis off the pad was at 6:48 a.m. EDT. The journey was expected to take about six hours. Atlantis' targeted launch on Oct. 14 was delayed when a system that transfers science data from the orbiting observatory to Earth malfunctioned on Sept. 27. The new target launch date is under review. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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October 20, 2008
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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