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The Orion Capsule, Service Module and Launch Abort System will all be stacked in this building, formerly used by the Shuttle Program. The bay doors were not tall enough to accomodate the new stack, so a "cutout" had to be made above the existing doors.
The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center. From the SpaceX NASA Social May 18, 2012. Photo credit: Crystal Coleman
The hole nearest the camera was used for Space Shuttle Main Engine exhaust, the two behind it were for the Solid Rocket Booster exhaust.
A panorama from inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. This immense building was where the Saturn V rocket which sent humans to the moon, the space shuttle which helped build the ISS and launch the Hubble Space Telescope, and will eventually assemble the Space Launch System, which will take humans to Mars.
Picture taken from the NASA Orion EFT-1 Test Flight, from Cape Canaveral, FL
B #28, TV Studio – Viewing & participation in the NASASocial #Orion, TV broadcast originating from NASA Kennedy
Watch the broadcast here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca1gp-rjbe4
Veteran of 4 space flight mission and director of Kennedy Space Flight Center: Robert D. (Bob) Cabana
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For the first time ever, all 10 NASA field centers participated in a multi-center NASA Social event Dec. 3, previewing the Dec. 4 first flight of the Orion Spacecraft on Exploration Flight Test-1.
Goddard hosted up to 25 social media followers to attend an afternoon celebrating the Orion launch. Attendees toured the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, where Martian meteorites and other samples are tested to answer two of the biggest mysteries facing humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? We'll also tour Goddard's massive Integration and Testing Facility, where spacecraft are built and tested and the world's largest cleanroom where the James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed. Webb is the scientific successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It will be the most powerful space telescope ever built.