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As it hangs suspended in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis is being fitted with an apparatus that will help lower it to a horizontal position. Atlantis has been taken off its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters stack after of the delay of its STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis will be returned to the Orbiter Processing Facility. 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.

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Taken in: Kennedy Space Center

Author: NASA/Jim Grossmann

Description: As it hangs suspended in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis is being fitted with an apparatus that will help lower it to a horizontal position. Atlantis has been taken off its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters stack after of the delay of its STS-125 mission to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis will be returned to the Orbiter Processing Facility. 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.

Created on: Tuesday 11 November 2008

Albums: US SPACE PROGRAM / SPACE SHUTTLE / MISSIONS / STS-125 / Rocket preparation

Source link: https://images.nasa.gov/search-results?q=STS-125&page=16&media=image&yearStart=2008&yearEnd=2010

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