Launch Scrubbed Aug. 27th!
reset for Sept. 6th 12:29pm EST
Click here to read about the unusual problems that effected the launch, rollback and roll back to Pad 39B!
Sunrise morning of Rollback Aug. 29, 2006
Weather moving in during remote camera reset!
Possible remote site for the launch!
LA Daily News Photographer Gene Blevins adjust his camera box.
Spaceflightnow.com photographer Ben Cooper finishes setting up at one of his many remote camera sites.
Do to Tropical Storm Ernesto Atlantis had to rollback to VAB but when the weather forecast improved
the rollback was stopped and Atlantis was returned to Pad 39B.
Atlantis on the home stretch to the VAB.
Here is where Atlantis comes to a stop and starts it journey back to Pad 39B.
A view of Atlantis making its way back to Pad 39B from the Press Site.
An overall view of launch Complex 39 Press Site with Atlantis and Pad 39A in the background.
The day before rollback the Crawler Transporter was stationed at Pad 39B.
Also the day before the rollback the STS-116 (Next flight with Discovery in Dec.)
stack was going to be repositioned to the other side of the VAB to make room for Atlantis in High Bay 3
but a problem with the Transporter stopped the move and ended up putting the Stack right back where it was.
The STS-116 MLP ( Mobile Launch Platform) only had two left SRB segments stacked when the move was made.