Atlantis: Ready for Launch
Credit: AP
The space shuttle Atlantis is shown from the Mobile Launch Platform as the orbiter leaves the Vehicle Assembly Building for a trip to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Atlantis will make the final flight ever by a space shuttle in just five weeks to end the 30-year program. It will head to the launch pad Tuesday night for a July 8 liftoff; the three-mile trip from the hangar should be completed by the time Endeavour lands at 2:35 a.m. (AP Photo/Pool, Gary Rothstein)
