Space shuttle Atlantis is on NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A. The mobile launcher platform holding Atlantis was secured down on the seaside pad along Florida’s central east coast at 6:03 a.m. EDT, completing the 3.4 mile “rollout” from the Vehicle Assembly Building in about 6-and-a-half hours.
The pad’s rotating service structure, which provides weather protection and access to the shuttle, will be closed around Atlantis starting at about 9:15 a.m. That’s also the scheduled start of a media Q&A session at the pad with Atlantis’ six astronauts for the STS-132 mission. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the media event. NASA TV can be seen online at: www.nasa.gov/ntv