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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This eagle's eye view of STS-1 shows the space vehicle for the first Space Shuttle mission shortly after it was moved out of the Vehicle Assembly Builidng at 8 a.m. today for the 3.5-mile journey to Complex 39's Pad A. The Shuttle rests atop the Mobile Launcher Platform from which launch is scheduled no earlier than March 1981. Thousands of visitors and hundreds of news media representatives viewed the beginning of the move under leaden skies and in unseasonably cold temperatures in the low 40s.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - This eagle's eye view of STS-1 shows the space vehicle for the first Space Shuttle mission shortly after it was moved out of the Vehicle Assembly Builidng at 8 a.m. today for the 3.5-mile journey to Complex 39's Pad A. The Shuttle rests atop the Mobile Launcher Platform from which launch is scheduled no earlier than March 1981. Thousands of visitors and hundreds of news media representatives viewed the beginning of the move under leaden skies and in unseasonably cold temperatures in the low 40s.
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