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Hoisting Discovery
Space shuttle Discovery is hoisted vertically and positioned against its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters for attachment inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. (5min 29sec file)
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Poulos talks
Steve Poulos, Manager of the Orbiter Project Office, speaks to reporters after Discovery arrived in the Vehicle Assembly Building. (2min 31sec file)
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Walking with Discovery
Walk alongside space shuttle Discovery as the motorized transporter hauls the ship a quarter-mile from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building. (3min 21sec QuickTime file)
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Discovery leaves hangar
This time-lapse movie captured from an overhead camera shows space shuttle Discovery's middle-of-the-night departure from its processing hangar at Kennedy Space Center to the roll to the Vehicle Assembly Building. (4min 30sec file)
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Rolling into VAB
Discovery arrives in the Vehicle Assembly Building as viewed in this time-lapse movie. The shuttle will be mated to the redesigned external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters in the VAB before rolling to the launch pad for the first post-Columbia mission. (5min 00sec file)
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Payload bay doors
Discovery's payload bay doors are closed inside the Orbiter Processing Facility hangar in preparation for the move to the Vehicle Assembly Building. (2min 27sec file)
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Photo gallery: Discovery's pre-launch moves
Posted: April 3, 2005






A heavy-duty crane hoists Discovery upright inside the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building for mating to the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters atop a mobile launch platform. Photos: NASA-KSC
 

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