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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Two Boeing Delta IV first stages head to the Horizontal Integration Facility (upper right) at Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rockets were shipped by barge from Decatur, Ala., to Port Canaveral and offloaded onto Elevating Platform Transporters. A Boeing Delta IV will be used for the December launching of the GOES-N weather satellite for NASA and NOAA. The GOES-N is the first in a series of three advanced weather satellites including GOES-O and GOES-P. This satellite will provide continuous monitoring necessary for intensive data analysis. It will provide a constant vigil for the atmospheric “triggers” of severe weather conditions such as tornadoes, flash floods, hail storms and hurricanes. When these conditions develop, GOES-N will be able to monitor storm development and track their movements. KSC-04pd1670
STS-133 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
An overview of various rockets on display.
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-131 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
51G-37-078 - STS-51G - STS-51G earth observations
STS-129 - EOM - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mobile Launcher Platform-3 (MLP), which supported space shuttle Atlantis for its final flight to the International Space Station on the STS-135 mission, is taking its last journey from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). A massive crawler-transporter positioned under the MLP -- the last mobile launcher platform to launch a shuttle, begins the trek back to the VAB. A water truck leads the way spraying water on the dry crawlerway to reduce dust particles in the air. For more than 40 years, the MLPs have traveled between the massive VAB to both launch pads at Launch Complex 39, and then returned to the VAB for future use. MLP-3 was first used to launch Columbia on the STS-32 mission on Jan. 9, 1990. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2011-5590
STS-132 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
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Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122 - EOM
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Description: ALERT STILL COVERAGE OF TOUCHDOWN. VIEW FROM OUTSIDE OF FENCE. LOOKING SOUTH "WITH ORBITER COMING TOWARDS CAMERA" SHOW ORBITER DURING TOUCHDOWN. USE APPROPRAITE LENS AND LOCATION TO ASSURE AN ADEQUATE IMAGE SIZE AT ORBITER TOUCHDOWN. COMMITTED ONLY FOR RUNWAY 33 (SOUTH TO NORTH) LANDINGS.
Item: DL022-EOM
Date Taken: 2/20/2008
Image Type: DIGITAL STILLS
STS122 LAUNCH AND LANDING
Space Shuttle Atlantis was a space shuttle that was operated by NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program. It was the fourth operational shuttle built, and the last one to be built before the program was retired in 2011. Atlantis was named after the first research vessel operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and it made its first flight in October 1985. Over the course of its career, Atlantis completed 33 missions and spent a total of 307 days in space. Its last mission was STS-135, which was the final mission of the Space Shuttle program. Atlantis is now on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) was one of the four first operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet of NASA, the space agency of the United States. (The other two are Discovery and Endeavour.) Atlantis was the fourth operational shuttle built. Atlantis is named after a two-masted sailing ship that operated from 1930 to 1966 for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Atlantis performed well in 25 years of service, flying 33 missions.
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