spacetoday.net: Endeavour rolled out to pad

Posted: Thu, Jan 7, 2010, 8:04 AM ET (1304 GMT)
STS-130: rollout (NASA/KSC)

NASA rolled out the space shuttle Endeavour to the launch pad on Wednesday in preparation for the first of the final five missions for the shuttle program. Endeavour arrived at Pad 39A at 8:45 am EST (1345 GMT) Wednesday, four and a half hours after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Endeavour is scheduled to launch on mission STS-130 in the pre-dawn hours of February 7th to install the Tranquility docking node to the International Space Station. The launch is the first of five shuttle missions planned for 2010, the final year of shuttle operations before the program is retired; the launch is also the final scheduled night launch for the shuttle.