The Mission Rocket: Proton M with Breeze M upper stage Payload: Hot Bird 8 Date: Aug. 4, 2006 Time: 2148 GMT (5:48 p.m. EDT) Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Satellite feed: Intelsat Americas 6, Transponder 11, C-band, 93° West Spaceflight Now + Premium video content for our Spaceflight Now Plus subscribers. Atlantis on the pad Space shuttle Atlantis is delivered to Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B on August 2 to begin final preparations for blastoff on the STS-115 mission to resume construction of the International Space Station.  PLAY Atlantis rollout begins Just after 1 a.m. local time August 2, the crawler-transporter began the slow move out of the Vehicle Assembly Building carrying space shuttle Atlantis toward the launch pad.  PLAY STS-34: Galileo launch The long voyage of exploration to Jupiter and its many moons by the Galileo spacecraft began on October 18, 1989 with launch from Kennedy Space Center aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. The crew of mission STS-34 tell the story of their flight to dispatch the probe -- fitted with an Inertial Upper Stage rocket motor -- during this post-flight presentation film.  Small | Medium | Large Become a subscriber More video		BY JUSTIN RAY Follow the countdown and launch of the Russian Proton rocket carrying the Hot Bird 8 communications satellite. Reload this page for the very latest on the mission.