The Nation - News from Nov. 3, 1988
Space shuttle Atlantis was moved to the launching pad at Kennedy Space Center for a flight late this month in which the crew will deploy a Pentagon intelligence-gathering satellite and try to determine man’s role as a military observer in orbit. Perched vertically atop a huge transporter with a tank-like tread, Atlantis headed out of an assembly building into the darkness shortly after 1 a.m., completing the snail’s-pace 4-mile trip seven hours later at Pad 39B.
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