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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The crawler transporter slowly moves the Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP), carrying a set of twin solid rocket boosters, along the crawlerway in support of engineering analysis vibration tests on the crawler and MLP. The crawler is moving at various speeds up to 1 mph in an effort to achieve vibration data gathering goals as it leaves the VAB and then returns. The boosters are braced at the top for stability. The primary purpose of these rollout tests is to gather data to develop future maintenance requirements on the transport equipment and the flight hardware. Various parts of the MLP and crawler transporter have been instrumented with vibration data collection equipment.

An exterior view of an area of the Fort McCoy Combined

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Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

Latest Overall Look of Pad 39A. NASA public domain image. Kennedy space center.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launch pad 39A looks much like it did after the liftoff of STS-135, the final space shuttle mission, on July 8, 2011. This view shows the flame trench where smoke and flame from the shuttle's twin solid rocket boosters were deflected away from the pad. Both launch pad 39A and 39B pad 39A was originally built for the Apollo/Saturn V rockets that launched American astronauts on their historic journeys to the moon and later modified to support the 30-year shuttle program. To learn more about Launch Pad 39A visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/launch-complex39-toc.html Photo credit: NASA/Dan Casper

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STS-132 ATLANTIS ROLLOUT FROM VAB TO PAD 39A 2010-2919

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Power Check Pad with Suppressor, Near Idaho at Alabama Avenue, on flightline Apron, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Delta II interstage adapter, or ISA, for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, is delivered to the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket will loft SMAP into orbit. The ISA connects the Delta II first and second stages and encloses the second stage engine and thrust section. The spacecraft will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state. These measurements will be used to enhance understanding of processes that link the water, energy and carbon cycles, and to extend the capabilities of weather and climate prediction models. The data returned also will be used to quantify net carbon flux in boreal landscapes and to develop improved flood prediction and drought monitoring capabilities. Launch is scheduled for November 2014. To learn more about SMAP, visit http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov. Photo credit: NASA/Randy Beaudoin KSC-2014-3493

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A "towback" vehicle slowly pulls shuttle Endeavour from the Shuttle Landing Facility to Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A purge unit that pumps conditioned air into a shuttle after landing is connected to Endeavour's aft end. In the background is the massive Vehicle Assembly Building. Once inside the processing facility, Endeavour will be prepared for future public display. Endeavour's final return from space completed the 16-day, 6.5-million-mile STS-134 mission. Main gear touchdown was at 2:34:51 a.m. EDT, followed by nose gear touchdown at 2:35:04 a.m., and wheelstop at 2:35:36 a.m. Endeavour and its crew delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) and the Express Logistics Carrier-3 (ELC-3) to the International Space Station. AMS will help researchers understand the origin of the universe and search for evidence of dark matter, strange matter and antimatter from the station. ELC-3 carried spare parts that will sustain station operations once the shuttles are retired from service. STS-134 was the 25th and final flight for Endeavour, which spent 299 days in space, orbited Earth 4,671 times and traveled 122,883,151 miles. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2011-4273

A Delta 162 launch vehicle, carrying Westar V, the fifth in a series of Western Union communications satellites, lifts off from Pad 17 at 8:24 p.m. EDT

Het Hooge Pad te Makassar met rechts de protestantse kerk

Vandenberg Air Force Base, Space Launch Complex 3, Launch Pad 3 West, Napa & Alden Roads, Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, CA

STS-131 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

Cape Canaveral Air Station, Launch Complex 17, Facility 28425, East end of Lighthouse Road, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, FL

A Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 11 (HC-11) UH-46 Sea Knight helicopter, hanging from the side of the destroyer USS FIFE (DD-991) below the helicopter pad, is tied off with support ropes. The helicopter crashed on takeoff due to an engine failure

Expedition 25 Soyuz Rollout (201010050016HQ)

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