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Members of the media tour the control room areas inside NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT-2, as it slowly moves 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, CT-1 and CT-2, 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 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. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
Members of the media view NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT-2, as it travels slowly along the crawlerway on a test run to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Talking to the media are Mary Hanna, crawler project manager, and John Giles, crawler project deputy. 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. 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. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
Members of the media view NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT-2, as it travels slowly 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, CT-1 and CT-2, 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 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. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
Launchpad 0A has undergone a $15,000,000 rebuilding and upgrading effort following the ORB-3 explosion in October 2014. Photo credit: Jared Haworth / We Report Space
John Giles, crawler project deputy manager, talks to members of the media during a viewing of NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, also called CT-2, as it slowly moves 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, CT-1 and CT-2, 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 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. Photo credit: NASA/Cory Huston
A tranquil field of sea oats wave gently in front of the Antares rocket. The calm at Wallops Island will be disrupted this evening by the force of the Antares rocket launch. Photo credit: Jared Haworth / We Report Space
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NASA’s mega-Moon rocket with Orion and the European Service Module inside on the launchpad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
While the rocket will propel Orion to supersonic speeds, the rocket itself is moved slowly but securely to the launchpad.
The Space Launch Systems rocket (SLS), with Orion atop it, left the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at around 23:00 CET (22:00 GMT) on 17 March 2022 to begin its 6.5 km trip to Launchpad LC39B.
The first Artemis mission will send Orion to the Moon and back, farther than any human-rated spacecraft has travelled before. ESA’s European Service Module is the powerhouse that fuels and propels Orion and provides everything needed to keep astronauts alive, including water, oxygen, power and temperature control.
At 100 m tall, the SLS rocket is roughly the height of the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) in London, UK, or 16 giraffes stacked on top of each other. If you laid the rocket on the ground, it would take over a minute to walk from the engines to the tip of the launch abort system.
Credits: ESA–M. Cowan
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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronaut Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron liftoff to the International Space Station in the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft “Endurance”.
Collectively known as “Crew-3”, the astronauts were launched from launchpad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. They will spend around six months living and working aboard the orbital outpost before returning to Earth.
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Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja
More shots from our day at the pool. These two kept me busy the entire time we were in the pool. They wore me out!
Kathy brought along an underwater camera, but it being a film camera, I'll have to wait to see what those look like. Hopefully some of them will come out.
There are some funky buildings at La Defense/Paris.
This one reminded me of a launchpad more than an office building.
HDR image with contrast adjustments in PS.
Taken with a Nikon D300s at f/13 (for the sun rays), 1/250 (0, -1, +1), ISO 100