Shuttle Endeavour Moves Closer to March Launch

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<p><img style="margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px" src="http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/080212-sts123-rollover-01.jpg" align="left" border="0" />The orbiter Endeavour is in the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building after a move this morning from its shuttle processing hangar. <br /> <br />Mounted atop a 76-wheel transporter, the $1.8 billion spaceship was backed out of Bay No. 2 of the Orbiter Processing Facility at 7:36 a.m. About 100 workers escorted the orbiter as it was wheeled into the <a href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=080212-sts123-rollover-02.jpg&cap;=The+space+shuttle+Endeavour+rolls+over+to+ the+Vehicle+Assembly+Building+on+Feb.+11%2C+2008+f or+a+planned+March+11+launch.+Credit%3A+NASA%2FJim +Grossman.">52-story assembly building</a>. The quarter-mile move took about 20 minutes to complete. <br /> <br />The orbiter will be hoisted about a mobile launcher platform and then connected to an external tank with attached solid rocket boosters. The fully assembled shuttle is scheduled to roll out to launch pad 39A a week from today. <br /> <br />Endeavour and seven astronauts are scheduled to launch March 11 on a mission to delivery a <a href="http://www.space.com/news/dextre_hubble_040811.html">two-armed Canadian robot</a> and the first section of the <a href="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070502_techwed_kibo.html">Japanese Kibo science research facility</a> to the International Space Station.</p> <p><a href="http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft-080212-sts123-rollover.html">SPACE.com -- Shuttle Endeavour Moves Closer to March Launch</a></p>

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