NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission: STS-129
Orbiter: Atlantis
Primary Payload: Two Control Moment Gyroscopes, EXPRESS Logistics Carrier 1 and 2
Launch Date: Nov. 16
Launch Time: 2:28 p.m. EST
Launch Pad: 39A
Landing: Nov. 27 - 9:47 a.m. EST
Landing Site: Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Mission Duration: 11 days
Inclination/Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles

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Image: STS-129 Mission Specialist Mike Foreman arrives at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a T-38 jet for the launch dress rehearsal called the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. Photo credit: NASA/Troy Cryder
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STS-129 Crew at Kennedy
Atlantis' six astronauts returned to NASA's Kennedy Space Center to complete the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT. They'll conduct a simulated launch countdown aboard the shuttle, practice pad evacuation training and check out the payload they'll fly to the International Space Station.

The crew will return to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston Tuesday afternoon for final preps for the flight.

The STS-129 mission will return station crew member Nicole Stott to Earth and is slated to be the final space shuttle crew rotation flight to or from the space station.

Shuttle Atlantis and its crew will deliver EXPRESS Logistics Carriers 1 and 2 to the space station, including two control moment gyroscopes. The mission will feature three spacewalks.

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