Similar
STS-133 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
STS-133 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle Project
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-46 Launch
STS-129 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
Space Shuttle Endeavour on Launch Pad
STS-135 - Public domain NASA photogrpaph
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Outside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Kennedy employees, and their families and friends, are on hand to watch space shuttle Discovery roll out to Launch Pad 39A. It will take the shuttle, attached to its external fuel tank, twin solid rocket boosters and mobile launcher platform, about seven hours to complete the move atop a crawler-transporter. This is the second time Discovery has rolled out to the pad for the STS-133 mission, and comes after a thorough check and modifications to the shuttle's external tank. Targeted to liftoff Feb. 24, Discovery will take the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2 (R2) to the International Space Station. For more information on STS-133, visit www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts133/. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller KSC-2011-1272
Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-116 Launch
Related
STS-78 Columbia, OV-102, liftoff from KSC Launch Pad 39B
STS-80 Columbia, OV 102, liftoff from KSC Launch Pad 39B
STS-80 Columbia, OV 102, liftoff from KSC Launch Pad 39B
STS-80 Columbia, OV 102, liftoff from KSC Launch Pad 39B
STS-80 Columbia, OV 102, liftoff from KSC Launch Pad 39B
STS-80 Columbia, OV 102, liftoff from KSC Launch Pad 39B
STS-28 Columbia, OV-102, lifts off from KSC Launch Complex Pad 39B
STS-32 Columbia, OV-102, liftoff from KSC LC Pad 39A
STS-28 Columbia, OV-102, lifts off from KSC Launch Complex LC Pad 39B
STS-78 Columbia, OV-102, liftoff from KSC Launch Pad 39B
Summary
STS078-S-008 (20 June 1996) --- With an international payload and crew aboard, the Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from Launch Pad 39B, at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Possibly expected to be NASA's longest duration Shuttle flight to date, the mission officially began at 10:49:00 a.m. (EDT), June 20, 1996. Onboard for Columbia’s 20th flight were astronauts Terence T. (Tom) Henricks, mission commander; Kevin R. Kregel, pilot; Susan J. Helms, payload commander; and Richard M. Linnehan and Charles E. Brady, Jr., both mission specialists, along with payload specialists Jean-Jacques Favier of the French Space Agency (CNES) and Robert B. Thirsk of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). Flying in Columbia’s payload bay is the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS), carrying a complement of United States and international experiments.
- STS-78 Fact Sheet - Spaceline Org
- Lockheed/Martin Orion III Space Clipper With Astrium Ariane 5 Booster
- `Once Upon A Time - Ball State University
- The Great Canadian Model Builders Web Page!: June 2012
- space clipper orion Hot Sale - OFF 67%
- 20 juin 1996 – La navette spatiale STS 78 (Columbia 20), se lance ...