Technicians connected space shuttle Atlantis to its external tank and solid rocket boosters at about 2:45 a.m. Thursday. The work inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida readies the shuttle for the STS-129 mission to the International Space Station in November.
The six astronauts for Atlantis’ STS-129 mission to the International Space Station begin a two-day review of flight crew equipment today and will practice entry techniques in the motion base simulator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.