Space history curator Michael ... KSC stacked the much shorter shuttle inside the tall bays of the VAB and took the gantry tower off the launch platform and installed it on the pad.
The shuttle even did a promotional tour of the area, flying into the Central Coast base on the back of a Boeing 747.
After another launch scrub for weather, Space Shuttle mission STS-93 ... vehicle to zero-fault tolerance before the Shuttle cleared the launch tower, and a fuel leak had started even before ...
The futuristic flight suits worn by Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken during Saturday's successful launch ... shuttle flight suits worn when astronauts last launched from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
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How did the Space Shuttle launch workAll 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida. There are two launch pads - 39a and 39b. First the space shuttle is taken to the Orbital Processing Facility (OPF) where maintenance takes place.
Nasa has been developing a huge rocket called the Space Launch System ... the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter, retired in 2011. NASA / Michoud / Steve Seipel Workers inside the huge SLS hydrogen ...
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