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NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT-2, returns to the crawler park site after a test run to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Upgrades to the crawler include 88 new roller bearings, 22 on each "truck" section, and a new jacking, equalizing and leveling system. Fondly referred to as the "workhorses" of the space program, both crawlers, CT-1 and CT-2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. In the background is the Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy has made steady progress on upgrades and modifications to CT-2 to be ready to support NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and CT-1 to support a variety of other launch vehicles as the center transforms to a multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch gantry is rolled back to reveal NASA's Orion spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37. Orion is NASA's new spacecraft built to carry humans, designed to allow us to journey to destinations never before visited by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Feb. 20, 1962 -- Mercury Atlas-6 lifts off on Feb. 20, 1962 carrying astronaut John Glenn on America's first orbital spaceflight.
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At right, the Orion Service Module Umbilical (OSMU) lines have fully retracted during a simulated launch test on Vehicle Motion Simulator 1 at the Launch Equipment Test Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mobile launcher tower will be equipped with a number of lines, called umbilicals that will connect to the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). The OSMU will be located high on the mobile launcher tower and, prior to launch, will transfer liquid coolant for the electronics and air for the Environmental Control System to the Orion service module that houses these critical systems to support the spacecraft. Kennedy's Engineering Directorate is providing support to the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program for testing of the OSMU. EM-1 is scheduled to launch in 2018. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The launch gantry is rolled back to reveal NASA's Orion spacecraft mounted atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37. Orion is NASA's new spacecraft built to carry humans, designed to allow us to journey to destinations never before visited by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying the Dragon resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff was at 4:47 a.m. EST. The commercial resupply mission will deliver 3,700 pounds of scientific experiments, technology demonstrations and supplies, including critical materials to support 256 science and research investigations that will take place on the space station. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster, now in a vertical position, is lifted into place inside the Space Launch Complex 41 Vertical Integration Facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The Atlas V is slated to lift the Orbital ATK Enhanced Cygnus spacecraft into orbit.
The Cygnus mission, OA-4, is to deliver more than 7,000 pounds of equipment, experiments and supplies to the residents of the International Space Station. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
Engineers and technicians monitor the progress as NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT2, moves slowly on its trek along the crawlerway on a test run to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Fondly referred to as the "workhorses" of the space program, both crawlers, CT1 and CT2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy has made steady progress on upgrades and modifications to CT2 to be ready to support NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and CT1 to support a variety of other launch vehicles. Photo credit: NASA/Amber Watson
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT2, begins its trek out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a test run to Launch Pad 39B. Fondly referred to as the "workhorses" of the space program, both crawlers, CT1 and CT2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy has made steady progress on upgrades and modifications to CT2 to be ready to support NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and CT1 to support a variety of other launch vehicles. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT2, begins its trek out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a test run to Launch Pad 39B. Fondly referred to as the "workhorses" of the space program, both crawlers, CT1 and CT2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy has made steady progress on upgrades and modifications to CT2 to be ready to support NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and CT1 to support a variety of other launch vehicles. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
A Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway GP40-2, an FEC freight locomotive used in regular service, begins coupling operations with NASA's last two railroad locomotives at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background is the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building. The FEC locomotive will transport the two locomotives, EMD SW 1500s, to new homes on short line railroads. Locomotive no. 1 will be used by the Natchitoches Parish Port in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Locomotive no. 3 will be used by the Madison Railroad in Madison, Indiana, for regular freight service and passenger excursion train service. Locomotive no. 2 has already been delivered to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, Florida for restoration and eventual use. All three locomotives were originally acquired by NASA in 1983 from the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad. They were used primarily to carry the solid rocket booster segment cars and shuttle flight hardware on the NASA Railroad for the Space Shuttle Program. Photo credit: NASA/Amber Watson
The first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket for NASA's InSight mission is offloaded from the Antonov (AN-124) Russian aircraft on which it arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, will study processes that formed and shaped Mars. Its findings will improve understanding about the evolution of our inner solar system's rocky planets, including Earth. The lander will be the first mission to permanently deploy instruments directly onto Martian ground using a robotic arm. The mission is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 3E during the period March 4 to March 30, 2016, and land on Mars Sept. 28, 2016. Photo credit: NASA
Media representatives photograph NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) observatories in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, where they are being processed for launch. MMS is an unprecedented NASA mission to study magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process that occurs throughout the universe. MMS is a NASA mission led by the Goddard Space Flight Center. The instrument payload science team consists of researchers from a number of institutions and is led by the Southwest Research Institute. Launch of the four identical observatories aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is managed by Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Services Program. Liftoff is targeted for 10:44 p.m. EDT March 12. To learn more about MMS, visit www.nasa.gov/mms. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- U.S. Navy personnel aboard a rigid hull inflatable boat help recover NASA's Orion spacecraft following its splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after its first flight test in Earth orbit. The USS Anchorage is in the background. NASA, the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin are coordinating efforts to recover Orion and secure the spacecraft in the well deck of the USS Anchorage. Orion completed a two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission, to test systems critical to crew safety, including the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is leading the recovery efforts. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray
A full-size mock-up of the external tank and solid rocket boosters marks the entrance to the Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The building features two sweeping architectural elements that represent the space shuttle's launch and return. The outer layer of the building, cloaked in iridescent hues of orange and gold, represents the fiery glow of re-entry. The taller, internal wing of the building is covered in shimmering gray tile pattern representing the tiled underside of the orbiter. The 65,000-square-foot facility is home to space shuttle Atlantis, a full-size mock-up of the Hubble Space Telescope and a wealth of information, activities and displays about the space shuttle and the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida paid tribute to the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, as well as other NASA astronauts who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery, during the agency's Day of Remembrance, Jan. 28.
Kennedy workers and guests attached roses and carnations to the fence during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Space Mirror Memorial located in the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
The four identical observatories comprising NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) are on display in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, during a media opportunity. MMS is an unprecedented NASA mission to study magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process that occurs throughout the universe. MMS is a NASA mission led by the Goddard Space Flight Center. The instrument payload science team consists of researchers from a number of institutions and is led by the Southwest Research Institute. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is managed by Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Services Program. Liftoff is targeted for 10:44 p.m. EDT March 12. To learn more about MMS, visit www.nasa.gov/mms. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – This helicopter view of Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida shows the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket as it stands ready to boost NASA's Orion spacecraft on a 4.5-hour mission. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- Just before sunset, the Orion crew module is being moved by crane from its crew module recovery cradle and will be placed in the crew module transportation fixture at the Mole Pier at Naval Base San Diego in California. The fixture has been secured on the back of a flatbed truck. Orion is being prepared for the overland trip back to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion was recovered from the Pacific Ocean after completing a two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission Dec. 5 to test systems critical to crew safety, including the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. NASA, the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin coordinated efforts to recover Orion. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program led the recovery, offload and pre-transportation efforts. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
A computer-aided aerial image of Launch Pad 39B, and the new Small Class Vehicle Launch Pad, designated 39C, in the southeast area of the perimeter of pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch pad is designed to attract smaller aerospace companies and enable them to develop and launch their vehicles from Kennedy. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program oversaw construction of the new pad and is working with Center Planning and Development to grow commercial space efforts at Kennedy. Image credit: NASA
The Orion heat shield ground test article, secured in a shipping container, has been loaded into NASA's Guppy aircraft on the tarmac at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The container will be transported to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company near Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – This helicopter view of Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida shows the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket as it stands ready to boost NASA's Orion spacecraft on a 4.5-hour mission. The liftoff was postponed because of an issue related to fill and drain valves on the Delta IV Heavy rocket that teams could not troubleshoot by the time the launch window expired. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted flight test to Earth orbit. Liftoff was at 7:05 a.m. EST. During the two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission, engineers will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/ Sandy Joseph/Kevin O’connell
Modifications continue inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In view is the service platform that will be used for offline processing and fueling of the Orion spacecraft and service module stack before launch. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program (GSDO) is overseeing the upgrades to the facility. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
Cape Canaveral, Fla. -- A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted flight test to Earth orbit. Liftoff was at 7:05 a.m. EST. During the two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission, engineers will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. Photo credit: NASA/George Roberts
Preparations are underway for Load Test #1 on the Interim Cryogenic Propulsive Stage Umbilical (ICPSU) arm for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) at Coastal Steel in Cocoa, Florida. The test will consist of applying six vertical loads and eight horizontal loads onto the truss in the retracted position to simulate the effects of a launch on the structure. A load test tower was designed and fabricated at Coastal Steel for the test. Engineers and technicians from NASA Kennedy Space Center and Coastal will apply the loads by hanging weights off the ICPSU structure. Vertical loads will be applied by hanging the weights directly, and horizontal loads will be applied by a rope that wraps over an adjacent pipe on the load test tower. The ICPSU is one of the umbilical arms that will be attached to the mobile launcher. The umbilical will be located at the about the 240-foot-level of the mobile launcher and will supply fuel, oxidizer, pneumatics, hazard gas leak detection, electrical commodities and environmental control systems to the interim cryogenic propulsive stage of the SLS rocket during launch. Photo credit: Daniel Casper
A Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway GP40-2, an FEC freight locomotive used in regular service, arrives at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The locomotive will be used to transport the last two NASA Railroad locomotives from the center. The two locomotives, EMD SW 1500s, will be delivered to new homes on short line railroads. Locomotive no. 1 will be used by the Natchitoches Parish Port in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Locomotive no. 3 will be used by the Madison Railroad in Madison, Indiana, for regular freight service and passenger excursion train service. Locomotive no. 2 has already been delivered to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, Florida for restoration and eventual use. All three locomotives were originally acquired by NASA in 1983 from the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad. They were used primarily to carry the solid rocket booster segment cars and shuttle flight hardware on the NASA Railroad for the Space Shuttle Program. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted flight test to Earth orbit. Liftoff was at 7:05 a.m. EST. During the two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission, engineers will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/ Sandy Joseph/Kevin O’connell
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A Delta IV Heavy rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted flight test to Earth orbit. Liftoff was at 7:05 a.m. EST. During the two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission, engineers will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion Photo credit: NASA/ Sandy Joseph/Kevin O’connell
At right, the Orion Service Module Umbilical (OSMU) lines have fully retracted during a test on Vehicle Motion Simulator 1 at the Launch Equipment Test Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The series of tests also will include a simulated launch test. The mobile launcher tower will be equipped with a number of lines, called umbilicals that will connect to the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). The OSMU will be located high on the mobile launcher tower and, prior to launch, will transfer liquid coolant for the electronics and air for the Environmental Control System to the Orion service module that houses these critical system to support the spacecraft. Kennedy's Engineering Directorate is providing support to the Ground Systems Development and Operations Program for testing of the OSMU. EM-1 is scheduled to launch in 2018. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
A flatbed truck, carrying the first half of a new set of work platforms for the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), proceeds east on the Max Brewer Memorial Bridge in Titusville on its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The platform, one-half of the "K" platforms, was fabricated by Steel LLC of Scottdale, Georgia, and assembled by Sauer Co. in Oak Hill, Florida. A contract to modify High Bay 3 in the VAB was awarded to Hensel Phelps Construction Co. of Orlando, Florida in March 2014. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing upgrades and modifications to the high bay to support processing of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and other exploration vehicles. A total of 10 levels of new platforms, 20 platforms altogether, will surround the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft and provide access for testing and processing in High Bay 3. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
NASA’s two crawler-transporters, CT-1 and CT-2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. CT-2 made the trek from the Vehicle Assembly along the crawlerway on a test run to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A wood beam containing artwork was found when the deck of the vehicle was removed during upgrades and modifications. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy has made steady progress on upgrades and modifications to CT-2 to be ready to support NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and CT-1 to support a variety of other launch vehicles as the center transforms to a multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Mary Hanna
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – On the third day of preparations for recovery of Orion, pilots in two H60-S Seahawk helicopters practice take-off and search from the deck of the USS Anchorage in the Pacific Ocean about 600 miles off the coast of Baja, California. NASA, Lockheed Martin and U.S. Navy personnel are preparing to recover the Orion crew module, forward bay cover and parachutes after the spacecraft's return from space and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is leading the recovery efforts. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
A Florida East Coast (FEC) Railway GP40-2, a regular FEC freight service locomotive, pulls the last two NASA Railroad locomotives from the NASA Railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The two locomotives, EMD SW 1500s, will be delivered to new homes on short line railroads. Locomotive no. 1 will be used by the Natchitoches Parish Port in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Locomotive no. 3 will be used by the Madison Railroad in Madison, Indiana, for regular freight service and passenger excursion train service. Locomotive no. 2 has already been delivered to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum in Miami, Florida for restoration and eventual use. All three locomotives were originally acquired by NASA in 1983 from the Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad. They were used primarily to carry the solid rocket booster segment cars and shuttle flight hardware on the NASA Railroad for the Space Shuttle Program. Photo credit: NASA/Frankie Martin
In high bay 2 inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a ground support technician monitors the progress as the second gear assembly from the 50-year-old crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) is lowered by crane onto a wooden stand. Sections of the crawler's treads were removed to allow access to the gears. CT-2 is being upgraded to ensure its ability to handle the load of NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft on the mobile launcher as it travels to the launch pad. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy is overseeing the upgrades. For more information, visit: www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/crawler-transporter. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building high bay at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden delivers a “state of the agency” address at NASA's televised fiscal year 2016 budget rollout event with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana looking on, at right. Representatives from the Kennedy workforce, news media and social media were in attendance. NASA's Orion, SpaceX Dragon and Boeing CST-100 spacecraft, all destined to play a role in NASA’s overall exploration objectives, were on display. For information on NASA's budget, visit www.nasa.gov/budget. Photo credit: NASA/Amber Watson
Oct. 29, 1998 -- The space shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B to begin a nine-day mission in Earth-orbit. Launch was at 2:19 p.m. EST, Oct. 29, 1998. Onboard were Curtis L. Brown Jr., Steven W. Lindsey, Scott F. Parazynski, Steven K. Robinson, Pedro Duque, United States Senator John H. Glenn Jr. and Chiaki Naito-Mukai. Duque is a mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA) and Mukai is a payload specialist representing Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA). Glenn, making his second spaceflight but his first in 36 years, joins Mukai as a payload specialist on the mission.
Photo credit: NASA
A mural depicting on The Boeing Company’s newly named CST-100 Starliner commercial crew transportation spacecraft is installed on the company’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility, or C3PF, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The artwork on the facility’s front wall was completed just in time to greet NASA and Boeing managers, VIPs and invited guests for the grand opening. For 20 years, the facility served as a shuttle processing hangar and main engine shop. With the high bay of the C3PF expected to be complete in December 2015, engineers are building the structural test article for the Starliner in the remodeled engine shop. The test version of the spacecraft will be put through a continuum of tests culminating with a pad abort test in 2017.
Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
Artifacts representing Laurel Salton Blair Clark, who served as a mission specialist on space shuttle mission STS-107, are displayed in a new, permanent memorial, "Forever Remembered," opening June 27 in the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. NASA and astronaut families collaborated on the memorial designed to honor the crews lost on missions STS-51L and STS-107, pay tribute to shuttle vehicles Challenger and Columbia, and emphasize the importance of learning from the past. Encompassing nearly 2,000 square feet, the memorial contains the largest collection of memorabilia and personal items of both flight crews. It also includes recovered hardware from both Challenger and Columbia, never before displayed for the public. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT-2, moves slowly along the crawlerway back to the crawler park site after a test run to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Upgrades to the crawler include 88 new roller bearings, 22 on each "truck" section, and a new jacking, equalizing and leveling system. Fondly referred to as the "workhorses" of the space program, both crawlers, CT-1 and CT-2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. In the background is the Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy has made steady progress on upgrades and modifications to CT-2 to be ready to support NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and CT-1 to support a variety of other launch vehicles as the center transforms to a multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
NASA’s two crawler-transporters, CT-1 and CT-2, have served the agency's space programs for 50 years. CT-2 made the trek from the Vehicle Assembly along the crawlerway on a test run to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A plaque with worker signatures was found when the deck of the vehicle was removed during upgrades and modifications. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy has made steady progress on upgrades and modifications to CT-2 to be ready to support NASA's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, and CT-1 to support a variety of other launch vehicles as the center transforms to a multi-user spaceport. Photo credit: NASA/Mary Hanna