Stock Photo - 01/02/2001 __ Under gray cloudy skies, Space Shuttle Atlantis inches its way to Launch Pad 39A , barely visible in the background. The journey is a distance of just over 3 miles. Atlantis will fly on mission STS_98, the seventh construction flight to the International Space Station. The orbiter will carry in its payload bay the U.S. Laboratory, named Destiny, that will have five system racks already installed inside the module. After delivery of electronics in the lab, electrically powered attitude control for Control Moment Gyroscopes will be activated. Atlantis is scheduled for launch no earlier than Jan. 19, 2001, with a crew of five

Stock Photo: 01/02/2001 -- Under gray cloudy skies, Space Shuttle Atlantis inches its way to Launch Pad 39A , barely visible in the background.

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