Workers accompany the crawler-transporter as it carries space shuttle Atlantis to Launch Pad 39A.

As the sun rises over NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers accompany the crawler-transporter as it carries space shuttle Atlantis to Launch Pad 39A. First motion out of the Vehicle Assembly Building was at 6:38 a.m. EDT Oct. 14. The 3.4-mile trip, known as rollout, is expected to take about six hours.

Liftoff of Atlantis on its STS-129 mission to the International Space Station is targeted for Nov. 12. For information on the STS-129 mission and crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts129/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett