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Mike Curie, NASA Commentator Live from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida,

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you're watching coverage on NASA Television of the final movement of shuttle Atlantis

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from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building to its permanent home

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at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

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Space shuttle Atlantis is parked in the Vehicle Assembly Building where it has been

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for the last few weeks after undergoing a series of modifications and renovations to prepare it

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for public display.

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The move from the Vehicle Assembly Building where you can see Atlantis at this time will take

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12 hours and will be a 9.8-mile journey through the grounds of Kennedy Space Center.

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And here we see first motion as space shuttle Atlantis begins to back out

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of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Atlantis is on a 76-wheel orbiter transportation system,

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so it's not rolling on its own wheels. It will be gently traversing the grounds

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of Kennedy Space Center.

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While the weather restrictions for moving Atlantis are not nearly as stringent

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as launching Atlantis was, it was very important to have an acceptable weather forecast today

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so the space shuttle was not subjected to rain.

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It is going to be a beautiful day in Central Florida and the Space Coast to watch