Roll Out!!!

Today was roll out day for Atlantis! I scouted out a nice spot in the LCC (launch control center) parking lot. Here are some starting off pics:










Nice spot, huh? Well after a couple minutes of squeezing my camera lens through the fence, i realized 'Hey, I can get on the other side of the fence!'



So I did, and snapped these pics!

You can see the Pad A just to the right of the MLP.

After watching that all morning...it was time for lunch! After lunch, i saw that the stack made it to the pad so Greg and I drove out there to take more pics. It only took about 4 hours to get there, which was quick. I guess the normal 5 hour trip is to Pad B because that one is a bit farther. Greg and I drove around Pad A and took pictures the whole way:

Go Atlantis!

Looking down some old railroad tracks at the pad. Dunno what the tracks were for...

You can see the VAB at the far right of the picture.

So that's roll out! I thought the crawler was moving a lot faster than I imagined it did. Here's a video i took to show how fast it was going. I also have a video that shows how far it went in an hour...not that far.

I took waaaaaaaaay more pics than i put up here. I put them on my facebook for everyone to see.

We'll be loading the can up soon...which means i'll be all over the pad structure! Sweet!