KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Vehicle Assembly Building, Space Shuttle Atlantis is lowered into the transfer aisle after being demated from its External Tank_Solid Rocket Booster stack. The orbiter will be rolled back to Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 1 where 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.
Album Atlantis