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The Life of a Shuttle === the steps to Space & back
Posted in atlantis, crawler transporter, international space station, launch pad 39-a, shuttle hangar, space shuttle, STS-134, STS-135, Vehicle Assembly Building, tagged 39A, 39b, carol anne swagler, launch paqd, life of a shuttle, opf, orbiter processing facility, pete crow, peter crow, peter michael crow, rollout, rollover, runway, shuttle landing facility, slf, vehicle assembly building on July 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Current header Photograph / VAB Roof Safety Issues
Posted in atlantis, launch pad 39-a, STS-135, Vehicle Assembly Building, tagged carol anne swagler, carol swagler, final launch, is it safe on the VAB roof?, kennedy space center, ksc, nasa, pete crow, roof, safety, safety issues, seine harbour productions, sts-135, VAB, vehicle assembly building on July 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Photographers on the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) wait for the launch of Atlantis (in distance, far left). For safety reasons only 40 people are allowed on the VAB roof for launches because escape from the roof is limited. Although there are five narrow stairways leading from the roof, one on each side [...]
25 photos, 2 shuttle missions & 12 hours at Kennedy ==== the remarkable night of May 31 / June 1, 2011 at the Cape
Posted in STS-134, STS-135, Vehicle Assembly Building, tagged 747, california, control tower, convoy, crawler, edwards air force base, grandstand, landing of shuttle, landing sites, new mexico, pete crow, peter crow, peter m crow, rollout, runway, seine harbour productions, shuttle, shuttle landing facility, shuttle landing field, slf, sts-134, sts-135, vehicle assembly building, where do the shuttles land?, white sands on June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Arguably the night of May 31 / June 1, 2011, will go down as one of the greatest nights in the shuttle program. In the evening the final shuttle mission continued toward launch with the rollout of the shuttle Atlantis from the Vehicle Assembly Building. Before the Atlantis arrived at Pad 39-A, hours later, Endeavour [...]
Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
Posted in Vehicle Assembly Building, tagged apollo, diagram of vab, firing room 4, florida, kennedy space center, largest building in the world, launch control center, layout of vab, nasa, opf, orbiter processing facility, shuttle hangar, shuttle landing facility, shuttle runway, slf, VAB, vehicle assembly building, where are shuttles launched, where are the shuttles stored?, where do the shuttles land? on May 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »
How the VAB is constructed. The Vehicle Assembly Buiding at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, is the largest building, in terms of volume, in the world. The VAB was constructed in the mid-1960s to assemble the rockets and capsule in the Apollo program. The Apollo program landed men on the Moon six times between 1969 and [...]
