2006-028

Shuttle

USA

STS-121 Discovery rolls out to Launch Pad 39B on May 19, 2006 ~ 12:45pm first motion
in preparation for the STS-121 mission, scheduled to launch July 1st. The 4.2 mile journey took about nine hours to complete.

RSS rollback on June 30th at sunset.

The astronauts head to the launch pad for the first launch attempt on July 1

Twilight at the pad.

Launch at 2:38pm EST.

Launch vehicle:	Shuttle
Launch vehicle ID:
Payload:	Discovery STS-121
Launch date:	04 Jul 2006
Launch site:	KSC, SLC-39B

Ref: #79, #254 - update: 21.09.11