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NASA invites news media to the Kennedy Space Center, Fla. for an important milestone for the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery mission, designated STS-121. On Friday, May 12, Discovery is scheduled … ...
Space shuttle Discovery rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, where the shuttle’s external tank and two solid rocket boosters awaited.
Astronomy Hubble Space Telescope Shuttle Mission to Hubble: Some Assembly Required News By Patrick Peterson published July 21, 2008 ...
Production of the space shuttle's external fuel tanks is winding down at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune Apr 4, 2010 4 min to read ...
Space Shuttle Flights and ISS Assembly Sequence Space Shuttle Flights and ISS Assembly Sequence Launch Target AssemblyFlight Launch Vehicle Element (s) No earlier than Feb. 27, 2009 15A Discovery ...
A retired NASA Space Shuttle is slowly coming together for an unprecedented display, with the massive tank that once helped power the rocket now standing tall alongside two solid boosters at the ...
For this whole assembly operation, “we’re basically following the same process that Kennedy Space Center used,” Rudolph notes, adding that no one has put together a shuttle at a non-NASA ...
Piece o’ cake Two large solid rocket motors are hauled through the streets of Los Angeles on Oct. 11 on the way to the California Science Center to join a display of the space shuttle Endeavour.
NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery completed one milestone and is nearing another as workers prepare the orbiter for a December launch to the International Space Station. On Tuesday night, driver… ...