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Atlantis completes rollback trip

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Sept. 5, 2008.Space shuttle Atlantis is seen on Launch Pad 39A following its slow trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy SPace Center in Florida on September 5, 2008. NASA is making preparations to launch Atlantis on mission STS-125, a service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, targeted to launch on October 10, 2008. (UPI Photo/NASA) 
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Published: Oct. 20, 2008 at 2:36 PM
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency Monday completed the "rollback" of space shuttle Atlantis from its Kennedy Space Center launch pad to the Vehicle Assembly Building.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecraft was to have been launched Oct. 10 on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. But that mission was indefinitely postponed when a malfunction occurred in a system that transfers science data from the orbiting observatory to Earth. A new target launch date hasn't been announced.

NASA said the next space shuttle flight will be space shuttle Endeavour's STS-126 mission to the International Space Station, targeted for launch Nov. 14.

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