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European Space Agency's Columbus module
The upper External Payload Facility is shown. Used for long-term exposure experiments and monitoring equipment, these brackets will be heavily used during their service.
Shown through the scaffolding is the lower External Payload Facility.
At dawn: the VAB, Venus and the Moon.
Atlantis is slowly backed out of OPF 1.
Atlantis is slowly backed out of OPF 1.
The rollover is stopped as spotters move a temporary light that was too close to the passing vehicle.
As dawn fills the sky, Atlantis proceeds toward the VAB.
Atlantis at about the halfway point in the rollover.