
A view from Beach Road as the rotating service structure opens showing Space Shuttle Atlantis during sunset as it sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 15 November 2009 and is scheduled to launch 16 November 2009 at 2:28 P.M. Atlantis with a crew of six will travel to the International Space Station and is expected to return to Kennedy Space Center 27 November 2009. EPA/Justin Dernier

A view from Beach Road as the rotating service structure opens showing Space Shuttle Atlantis during sunset as it sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 15 November 2009 and is scheduled to launch 16 November 2009 at 2:28 P.M. Atlantis with a crew of six will travel to the International Space Station and is expected to return to Kennedy Space Center 27 November 2009. EPA/Justin Dernier

A view from Beach Road as the rotating service structure opens showing Space Shuttle Atlantis during sunset as it sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 15 November 2009 and is scheduled to launch 16 November 2009 at 2:28 P.M. Atlantis with a crew of six will travel to the International Space Station and is expected to return to Kennedy Space Center 27 November 2009. EPA/GARY I ROTHSTEIN

A view from Beach Road as the rotating service structure opens showing Space Shuttle Atlantis during sunset as it sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 15 November 2009 and is scheduled to launch 16 November 2009 at 2:28 P.M. Atlantis with a crew of six will travel to the International Space Station and is expected to return to Kennedy Space Center 27 November 2009. EPA/GARY I ROTHSTEIN

A view from Beach Road as the rotating service structure opens showing Space Shuttle Atlantis during sunset as it sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 15 November 2009 and is scheduled to launch 16 November 2009 at 2:28 P.M. Atlantis with a crew of six will travel to the International Space Station and is expected to return to Kennedy Space Center 27 November 2009. EPA/GARY I ROTHSTEIN

A view from Beach Road as the rotating service structure opens showing Space Shuttle Atlantis during sunset as it sits on launch pad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 15 November 2009 and is scheduled to launch 16 November 2009 at 2:28 P.M. Atlantis with a crew of six will travel to the International Space Station and is expected to return to Kennedy Space Center 27 November 2009. EPA/GARY I ROTHSTEIN