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Space shuttle Endeavour took an unusual route to NASA Kennedy Space
Center's Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its STS-127 mission to the
International Space Station.
Endeavour was prepared as a rescue vehicle and sat poised on pad B while
space shuttle Atlantis and the STS-125 crew serviced and upgraded NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope.
This is only the fourth time in NASA history, a shuttle "rolled around" from one
pad to the other.
Balanced securely on the massive crawler-transporter, Endeavour began its one-
mile-an-hour journey down pad B's ramp May 31 at 3:16 a.m. Eastern Time.
Not having a direct route to pad A, the shuttle made its way back to the location
where the road, or crawlerway, to the two launch pads meet.
At the fork in the road, Endeavour continued on the 3.4-mile journey to its ocean-
side pad where it was secured in place at 11:42 a.m.
NASA's STS-127 mission to the space station is the final in a series of three
flights dedicated to the assembly of the Japanese Kibo laboratory complex.