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STS-129 will focus on staging spare components outside the station. The 15-day, three spacewalk flight will install two large ExPRESS Logistics Carriers (ELC) holding two gyroscopes, two nitrogen tank assemblies, two pump modules, an ammonia tank assembly, a spare latching end effector for the station's robotic arm, a spare trailing umbilical system for the Mobile Transporter and high-pressure tank. Charlie "Scorch" Hobaugh will command the mission, which is scheduled to launch on the penultimate flight of Atlantis in November 2009. Barry "Butch" Wilmore will serve as pilot. The STS-129 mission specialists are Robert "Bobby" Satcher, Michael Foreman, Randy Bresnik and Leland Melvin. The flight will also return Nicole Stott from the space station.
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis arrived in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for the next phase of its launch preparations. The rollover from its hangar, Orbiter Processing Facility 1, began about 6 a.m. CDT and was completed at 7:25 a.m. when Atlantis was towed into the VAB. Next, Atlantis will be lifted over a transom and lowered into high bay 1, where it will be attached to its external tank and twin solid rocket boosters. Rollout of the completed shuttle stack to Pad 39A is planned for October 13. Liftoff of Atlantis on the STS-129 mission is targeted for 3:04 p.m. CST on November 12.
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