The Region - News from April 7, 1985
Atlantis, the fourth space shuttle, was rolled out of its assembly plant hangar in Palmdale for informal ceremonies featuring two of the four astronauts to be on its maiden mission Sept. 26. About 4,000 Rockwell International employees watched as mission specialists Robert Stewart and Dave Hilmers received a key to the hatch of the $1.5-billion spacecraft. It will be towed this week to Edwards Air Force Base for a Boeing 747 flight to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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