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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA's Liberty Star, one of NASA's a solid rocket booster retrieval ships, moves through the locks at Port Canaveral. The ship towed the Pegasus barge, carrying external tank 134, from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans. A tugboat will bring the barge through the Banana River to its destination in the turn basin near Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, where the tank will be offloaded and transported into the VAB. ET-134 will be used to launch space shuttle Endeavour on the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station. Launch is targeted for Feb. 4, 2010. For information on the components of the space shuttle and the STS-130 mission, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller