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| Image above: Space Shuttle Discovery approaches Launch
Pad 39B just before sunrise Thursday morning. Image Credit: NASA/Amanda
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Discovery rolls to Launch Pad 39B
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space Shuttle Discovery has
arrived at Launch Pad 39B following an overnight move from the cavernous
Vehicle Assembly Building.
Perched atop the mobile launcher platform and carried by a massive crawler
transporter, the shuttle assembly began the 4.2-mile journey at 12:29
a.m. EST and was officially in place at the pad at 9:03 a.m.
Meanwhile, the P5 integrated truss segment and SPACEHAB module are already
inside the environmentally controlled payload changeout room at the launch
pad. The payloads are scheduled to be installed in Discovery's payload
bay on Saturday, Nov. 11.
The STS-116 mission is No. 20 to the International Space Station and
construction flight 12A.1. The launch window opens Dec. 7.
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