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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, covers are being placed over solid rocket booster segments that will be transported to Utah. The yellow transportation end covers have already been inserted and are secure, as seen on the segment at left. The spent segments are part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3462

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A solid rocket booster segment is lifted off a truck bed at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The segment is part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The spent segment will be placed on a railroad car and covered for the long trip back to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3460

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A solid rocket booster segment is lifted off a truck bed at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The segment is part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The spent segment will be placed on a railroad car and covered for the long trip back to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3453

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers oversee the placement of a solid rocket booster segment onto a railroad car at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The spent segment is part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. At far right are other segments already covered for the long trip back to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3458

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lowers a solid rocket booster segment toward a railroad car at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The spent segment is part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The segment will be placed on the car and covered for the long trip back to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3461

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lifts a solid rocket booster segment off a truck bed at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for transfer to a railroad car. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The spent segment is part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The segment will be placed on the car and covered for the long trip back to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3455

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane moves a solid rocket booster segment toward a railroad car at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The spent segment is part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The segment will be placed on the car and covered for the long trip back to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3456

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center stand ready to secure the transportation cover over the solid rocket booster segment that is being transported to Utah. The spent segments are part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3464

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- An overhead crane lifts a solid rocket booster segment off a truck bed at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for transfer to a railroad car. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The spent segment is part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The segment will be covered for the long trip back to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3454

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a cover is lowered over the solid rocket booster segment being transported to Utah. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The spent segments are part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller KSC-07pd3463

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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, a cover is lowered over the solid rocket booster segment being transported to Utah. The yellow transportation end cover has already been inserted and is secure. The spent segments are part of the booster used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Amanda Diller

The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.

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US Navy (USN) SEAMAN Allen J. Anderson (right) conducts watch turnover with ENSIGN Joshua W. Christie (left) aboard the USN Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship USS IWO JIMA (LHD 7). The IWO JIMA deployed in the Mediterranean Sea supports Maritime Security Operations (MSO). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 3rd Class (AW) Amanda M. Williams) (Released)

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- As part of Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) activities at SPACEHAB, members of the STS-106 crew check out a Maximum Envelope Support Structure (MESS) rack they will be using during their mission to the International Space Station. Seen here (with backs to camera, in uniform) are Mission Specialist Richard A. Mastracchio, Pilot Scott D. Altman, Boris V. Morukov, and Edward T. Lu (at right). Also taking part in the CEIT are Commander Terrence W. Wilcutt and Mission Specialists Yuri I. Malenchenko and Daniel C. Burbank. Malenchenko and Morukov represent the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. STS-106 is scheduled to launch Sept. 8, 2000, at 8:31 a.m. EDT from Launch Pad 39B on an 11-day mission. The seven-member crew will prepare the Space Station for its first resident crew and begin outfitting the newly arrived Zvezda Service Module. They will perform support tasks on orbit, transfer supplies and prepare the Zvezda living quarters for the first long-duration crew, dubbed “Expedition One,” which is due to arrive at the Station in late fall KSC00pp0952

A starboard quarter view of the Military Sealift Command (MSC) fleet oiler USNS KANAWHA (T-AO-196) as she backs clear of her moorings at the Norfolk Naval Station. The larger harbor tug WAPAKONETA (YTB-766) is alongside assisting the ship in her departure

Two M1A1 Abrams Tanks ride across the top of two flat bed rail cars at the Camp Carroll Rail Head in Korea, on Oct. 26, 1998. Alpha Company 1ST Battalion, 33rd Armored Regiment is a participant in a railhead exercise that will move the 33rd Armored Regiment's equipment to Camp Casey in support of Foal Eagle '98. Foal Eagle is a field training exercise that takes place once a year in Korea

Florida East Coast Railway schedule 1935

Members of a U.S. Army audio-visual team videotape the loading of M-151 light vehicles onto flatbed rail cars for transport to the port of Bremerhaven. The vehicles were used by the 32nd Separate Infantry Brigade (Mechanized), Wisconsin Army National Guard, during exercise Reforger '86

Sgt. Gustavo Ocasio, a motor transport operator assigned

An RT240 Kalmar Rough Terrain Container Handler loads

A large blue boat traveling across a body of water. Amanda ship vessel.

An LCM-8 mechanized landing craft approaches the amphibious assault ship USS SAIPAN (LHA 2) as the utility landing craft LCU-1643 backs out of the SAIPAN's well deck during Operation Sharp Edge. Marines embarked aboard the SAIPAN are being sent to the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, to augment security and evacuate U.S. and foreign nationals from the fighting between government and rebel forces

A port quarter view of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) as the ship backs into berth 12 at the Piedmont Pier at the naval base for a port visit

The utility landing craft LCU-1666 backs away from the beach while deploying a bulk fuel line from a spool fitted on its deck during the combined South Korean/U.S. exercise Team Spirit '90

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