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Article: Space Shuttle Moves to Launch Pad
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- July 11, 2007
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - For the first time in almost five years, space shuttle Endeavour began moving to the launch pad Tuesday in preparation for a flight which will deliver teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan and her six crew mates to the international space station.
The 3.4 mile journey aboard the massive crawler-transporter started at 8:10 p.m. EDT and was expected to last seven hours.
Endeavour is scheduled to launch on Aug. 7 on the second space shuttle flight of the year, a mission which a NASA manager said "has a little bit of everything."
The last time Endeavour was at the launch pad was in November 2002 before its launch on a construction mission to the space station. It ...