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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --- Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the external tank for space shuttle Discovery is lifted up into a checkout cell for processing. The tank will be stacked with solid rocket boosters for Discovery's launch on the STS-124 mission. On the mission, the shuttle will transport the Kibo Japanese Experiment Module - Pressurized Module and the Japanese Remote Manipulator System. Launch is targeted for May 25. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-08pd0890
Expedition 36 Soyuz, Russian Space Program
OSIRIS-REx, Atlas V Centaur Stage Arrival and Lift & Mate
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - On Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the fifth and final solid rocket booster nears the top of the Lockheed Martin Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility. It will be added to the other four already mated to the rocket. The Atlas V is the launch vehicle for the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft that will make the first reconnaissance of Pluto and its moon, Charon - a "double planet" and the last planet in our solar system to be visited by spacecraft. As it approaches Pluto, the spacecraft will look for ultraviolet emission from Pluto's atmosphere and make the best global maps of Pluto and Charon in green, blue, red and a special wavelength that is sensitive to methane frost on the surface. It will also take spectral maps in the near infrared, telling the science team about Pluto's and Charon’s surface compositions and locations and temperatures of these materials. When the spacecraft is closest to Pluto or its moon, it will take close-up pictures in both visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The mission will then visit one or more objects in the Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune. New Horizons is scheduled to launch in January 2006, swing past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February or March 2007, and reach Pluto and Charon in July 2015. KSC-05pd2527
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In high bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building, external tank No. 118 has been lowered between the twin solid rocket boosters on the mobile launcher platform. The stack is designated to fly on mission STS-115 with Atlantis. ET-118 will fly with many major safety changes, including the removal of the protuberance air load ramps. The mission will deliver the second port truss segment, the P3/P4 Truss, to attach to the first port truss segment, the P1 Truss, as well as deploy solar array set 2A and 4A. Launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled for late August. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-06pd1517
A view of an Atlas-Centaur missile before launch
GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-V - MATING. NASA public domain image colelction.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Engineers and technicians move NASA's MAVEN spacecraft, inside payload fairing, onto a trailer inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, or PHSF, for transport to Space Launch Complex 41 where it will be hoisted atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will lift it into space and on to Mars. MAVEN is short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2013-3873
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A transporter begins moving NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-K, enclosed in its payload fairing, from the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla., to its launch site. TDRS-K will lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41, near NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The TDRS-K spacecraft is part of the next-generation series in the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, a constellation of space-based communication satellites providing tracking, telemetry, command and high-bandwidth data return services. For more information, go to http://www.nasa.gov/tdrs Photo credit: NASA/Glenn Benson KSC-2013-1135
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Zusammenfassung
Expedition 23 Sojus-Rollout Das Raumschiff Sojus TMA-18 ist am Mittwoch, 31. März 2010, mit dem Zug zur Startrampe am Kosmodrom Baikonur in Kasachstan eingetroffen. Der Start des Sojus-Raumschiffes mit Expedition 23 Sojus-Kommandant Alexander Skworzow, Bordingenieur Michail Kornienko und NASA-Bordingenieur Tracy Caldwell Dyson ist für Freitag, den 2. April 2010 um 00.04 Uhr Ost geplant.
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