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Space shuttle Atlantis, sitting on the mobile launcher platform, which in turn rests on the crawler-transporter, is rolled back from Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). First motion of Atlantis' six hour journey off the pad was at 6:48 a.m. EDT on October 20, 2008. On November 11, 2008 Atlantis is de-stacked (taken off its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters stack) and the orbiter returned to the Orbiter Processing Facility(OPF).

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Rollback Photo Images

The HST payload canister heads toward the Canister Rotation Facility

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Silhouetted against an early morning Florida sky, Atlantis begins to roll away from Launch Pad 39A at KSC

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Under cloudy skies Atlantis begins to roll away from the pad

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Atlantis rolls toward the open doors of the VAB

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In the VAB's high bay 3 Atlantis comes to rest after its six-hour journey from Launch Pad 39A

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Atlantis is towed out of the VAB

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Atlantis is towed into the Orbiter Processing Facility

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