KSC-00PP-1935 - STS-98 U.S. Lab payload is moved to stand for weight determination 


KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- In the Space Station Processing
Facility, the "key" to the U.S.  Laboratory Destiny is officially
handed over to NASA during a brief ceremony while workers look on.
Suspended overhead is the laboratory, being moved to the Launch
Package Integration Stand (LPIS) for a weight and center of gravity
determination. Destiny is the payload aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis on
mission STS-98 to the International Space Station. The lab is fitted
with five system racks and will already have experiments installed
inside for the flight. The launch is scheduled for January 2001.

 
                                               12/21/2000