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STS087-358-034 - STS-087 - Scott and Doi during second EVA activities, Small ORU OPS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In Orbiter Processing Facility-1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, operations are under way to remove the fuel line that supplied liquid hydrogen propellant to space shuttle Atlantis’ main engine No. 2. The liquid hydrogen lines will be placed in storage to preserve the option to reuse them on NASA’s Space Launch System heavy-lift vehicle, under development. The work is part of the Space Shuttle Program’s transition and retirement processing of shuttle Atlantis. A groundbreaking was held Jan. 18 for Atlantis' future home, a 65,000-square-foot exhibit hall in Shuttle Plaza at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Atlantis is scheduled to roll over to the visitor complex in November in preparation for the exhibit’s grand opening in July 2013. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky KSC-2012-2694
Survey view of the Nitrogen Tank on the S1 Truss during Joint Operations
Rack installation in the JPM. NASA public domain image colelction.
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Rack installation in the JPM. NASA public domain image colelction.
COMBUSTION MODULE 1 CM-1. Public domain image, NASA.
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S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-124) Landing
Space X-4 Dragon commercial cargo approaches the ISS
S3/S4 Integrated Truss being moved into the Space Shuttle Payloa
Summary
In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane settles the S3/S4 integrated truss into the payload canister. After it is stowed in the canister, the S3/S4 truss will be transported to the launch pad. The truss is the payload on mission STS-117, targeted for launch on March 15.
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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