Under white morning clouds Space Shuttle Atlantis nears the Rotating Service Structure on Launch Pad 39A.

Under wispy white morning clouds, Space Shuttle Atlantis nears the Rotating Service Structure on Launch Pad 39A. Atlantis will fly on mission STS-98, the seventh construction flight to the International Space Station, carrying the U.S. Laboratory, named Destiny. The lab will have five system racks already installed inside the module. After delivery of electronics in the lab, electrically powered attitude control for Control Moment Gyroscopes will be activated. Atlantis is scheduled for launch no earlier than Jan. 19, 2001, with a crew of five