For the final scheduled time, the shuttle Atlantis rolled out of its processing bay around 7 a.m. EDT Tuesday morning. The shuttle stopped for several hours along the quarter-mile route to the Vehicle Assembly Building, allowing employees to pose for photographs with the spaceplane. Atlantis entered the Vehicle Assembly Building around 11 a.m. for attachment to its external tank and solid rocket boosters.

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