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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Mars Exploration Rover-2 (MER-2) rests in the proper position on the base petal of its lander assembly. Set to launch in Spring 2003, the MER Mission will consist of two identical rovers designed to cover roughly 110 yards each Martian day over various terrain. Each rover will carry five scientific instruments that will allow it to search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. The first rover has a launch window opening May 30, and the second rover, a window opening June 25. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Inside the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is revealed after the lid of its container was removed. The primary payload on mission STS-99, the SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will fly onboard the Space Shuttle during the 11-day mission scheduled for September 1999. This radar system will gather data that will result in the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface that has ever been assembled. SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NASA, with participation of the German Aerospace Center DLR. Its objective is to obtain the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of the Earth. Payload Processing Facility Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Rover Equipment Deck (RED) on one of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) is integrated to the Warm Electronics Box (WEB) on the WEB cart. Processing of the rovers, plus cruise stage, lander and heat shield elements, is ongoing. Set to launch in 2003, the MER Mission will consist of two identical rovers designed to cover roughly 110 yards each Martian day. Each rover will carry five scientific instruments that will allow it to search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. The first rover has a launch window opening May 30, and the second rover a window opening June 25, 2003. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
"In July 1967, ... MIT's X-ray astronomy program [began] with the launch of this payload module atop an Aerobee sounding rocket at White Sands Missile Range." (This shot shows only the pointed front end of the module.) At the MIT Museum.
On board the CALIPSO satellite, there is a lidar instrument, wide field camera, and Imaging infrared radiometer, all taking measurements of Earth's atmosphere.
These new payload instruments will help us detect radiation from space, both in the atmosphere and in orbit, so we can begin to get a better understanding of what travel above the protective blanket of our atmosphere will be like for astronauts
During the Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) in the Payload Bay of Discovery, STS-95 Mission Specialist Pedro Duque (left), of the European Space Agency, tethers a wrench held by Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson (right) that they will use during the mission. The CEIT gives astronauts an opportunity for a hands-on look at the payloads and equipment with which they will be working on orbit. The launch of the STS-95 mission is scheduled for Oct. 29, 1998. The mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
1. Payload Instrument Rack (rear left)
This rack is typical of those flown on Aerobees in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It held equipment that performed “housekeeping functions." This particular one includes a battery box, electrical junction box, optical and magnetic aspect sensors, and apertures for ultraviolet photometers.
Transferred from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
2. X-Ray Telescope (front left)
In 1962 scientists under the direction of Riccardo Giacconi of American Science and Engineering (AS&E) flew an array of x-ray detectors aboard a U.S. Air Force Aerobee 150 that recorded, for the first time, a celestial object emitting x-rays at a far greater rate than the Sun. This telescope is similar to the instrument that made that discovery. It has several special Geiger counters for measuring "soft" X-rays, surrounded by scintillation counters that responded to more energetic x-rays. The detectors are developmental and backup versions. This instrument was assembled for display by AS&E in the mid-1960s.
Gift of American Science and Engineering
3. Nose Cone Shell (rear right)
This protective cover for the Aerobee payload instrument rack provides the aerodynamic properties required for high-speed, spin-stabilized flight.
Transferred from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
4. Heliostat (front right)
This experimental heliostat, a device for tracking the Sun, was designed for Aerobees in the early 1950s at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and built by the Navy Bureau of Aircraft Armaments. It used a servo-driven mirror flanked by small electric eyes that would seek out and lock onto the Sun during flight. The mirror could then reflect a stable image of the Sun into the optical observing instruments carried within the spinning and pitching rocket. The device was efficient and compact and had low inertial properties, but it suffered from optical distortions. It was superseded by a design created by the University of Colorado.
Transferred from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
In the early morning, the payload canister containing the Chandra X-ray Observatory, with umbilical hoses still attached, is lifted up the Rotating Service Structure (RSS). The hoses provide a controlled environment during the transfer. The canister arrived at the pad on the payload canister transporter below it. The canister will be lifted up to the Payload Changeout Room in the RSS where it will be relieved of its cargo. After the RSS rotates to a position behind Space Shuttle Columbia (at right), the observatory will then be installed vertically in the orbiter payload bay. The world's most powerful X-ray telescope, Chandra will allow scientists from around the world to see previously invisible black holes and high-temperature gas clouds, giving the observatory the potential to rewrite the books on the structure and evolution of our universe. Chandra is the primary payload on mission STS-93, scheduled to launch no earlier than July 20 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia (right). Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
United Launch Alliance (ULA) hoists Amazon's Project Kuiper Protoflight mission payload atop the Atlas V rocket in the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) adjacent to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance
A payload canister containing the primary payloads for the STS-87 mission is lifted into the Payload Changeout Room at Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center. The STS-87 payload includes the United States Microgravity Payload-4 (USMP-4) and Spartan-201. Spartan- 201 is a small retrievable satellite involved in research to study the interaction between the Sun and its wind of charged particles. USMP-4 is one of a series of missions designed to conduct scientific research aboard the Shuttle in the unique microgravity environment for extended periods of time. In the past, USMP missions have provided invaluable experience in the design of instruments needed for the International Space Station (ISS) and microgravity programs to follow in the 21st century. STS-87 is scheduled for launch Nov. 19. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
5. Infrared Telescope
This infrared telescope was carried into the upper atmosphere by an Aerobee 150 sounding rocket in 1967. It successfully provided background infrared measurements of the sky even though its stabilization system developed problems. Created at Cornell University, the modified Cassegrain telescope was designed to be cooled to the temperature of liquid helium to minimize thermal noise. However, small leaks in the system caused the helium to escape too rapidly. So liquid nitrogen, which has a higher boiling temperature, was used instead.
Gift of Cornell University
6. Parachute Section
Payloads often had to be retrieved to be scientifically useful, and some were expensive enough to warrant trying to use them more than once. Parachute systems were developed starting in the 1940s to return payloads gently to Earth but they did not become reliable until the 1950s. This parachute section was never flown.
Transferred from the US. Naval Research Laboratory
7. De-Spin Section
Although Aerobee rockets were spin stabilized at launch, many off the instruments they carried needed a stabilized platform to take useful measurements. The de-spin section employed two yo-yo weights which were shot out of the canister and absorbed the momentum of spin thus reducing the mocker's spinning rate. This de-spin section was never flown
Transferred from the US. Naval Research Laboratory
8. Echelle Spectrograph
This casing and its optical components are from a Lyman alpha echelle (French for ‘ladder’) spectrograph. The instrument was designed to fly on Aerobee sounding rockets in the late 1950’s to produce high-resolution solar spectra in the far-ultraviolet Lyman alpha region of the spectrum
Transferred from the US. Naval Research Laboratory
At left, the payload canister for Space Shuttle Discovery is lifted from its canister movement vehicle to the top of the Rotating Service Structure on Launch Pad 39-B. Discovery (right), sitting atop the Mobile Launch Platform and next to the Fixed Service Structure, is scheduled for launch on Oct. 29, 1998, for the STS-95 mission. That mission includes the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3), the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the Spartan solar- observing deployable spacecraft, and the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Students from 20 states display their rockets and payloads and talk about what they did to make them fly at the NASA Student Launch Rocket Fair on Friday, April 5. Over 800 students traveled to Huntsville, Alabama, to participate in a week of activities as part of NASA Student Launch.
Image credit: NASA/Fred Deaton
Student Launch awards news release
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, workers move the Mars Exploration Rover-2 (MER-2) into position over the base petal of its lander assembly. Set to launch in Spring 2003, the MER Mission will consist of two identical rovers designed to cover roughly 110 yards each Martian day over various terrain. Each rover will carry five scientific instruments that will allow it to search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. The rovers will be identical to each other, but will land at different regions of Mars. The first rover has a launch window opening May 30, and the second rover, a window opening June 25. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
In the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, Mary Reaves (left) and Phil Smith, with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, check out the carrier and horizontal antenna mast for the STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will fly onboard the Space Shuttle during an 11-day mission in September 1999. This radar system will gather data that will result in the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface that has ever been assembled. SRTM is an international project spearheaded by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency and NASA, with participation of the German Aerospace Center DLR. Its objective is to obtain the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of the Earth. Mission Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
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STS083-312-031 (4-8 April 1997) --- Payload specialist Gregory T. Linteris (left) is seen at the Mid Deck Glove Box (MGBX), while astronaut Donald A. Thomas, mission specialist, works at the Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station (EXPRESS) rack. MGBX is a facility that allows scientists the capability of doing tests on hardware and materials that are not approved to be handled in the open Spacelab. It is equipped with photographic, video and data recording capability, allowing a complete record of experiment operations. Experiments performed on STS-83 were Bubble Drop Nonlinear Dynamics and Fiber Supported Droplet Combustion. EXPRESS is designed to provide accommodations for Sub-rack payloads on Space Station. For STS-83, it held two payloads. The Physics of Hard Colloidal Spheres (PHaSE) and ASTRO-Plant Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (ASTRO-PGBA), a facility with light and atmospheric controls which supports plant growth for commercial research.
During Crew Equipment Interface Test (CEIT) in the Payload Bay of Discovery, STS-95 Mission Specialist Pedro Duque (center),of the European Space Agency, and Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson (arms extended), check out the Spartan payload that is part of the mission. At left is Keith Johnson, United Space Alliance- Houston. The CEIT gives astronauts an opportunity for a hands-on look at the payloads and equipment with which they will be working on orbit. The launch of the STS-95 mission is scheduled for Oct. 29, 1998. The mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
1. Payload Instrument Rack
This rack is typical of those flown on Aerobees in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It held equipment that performed “housekeeping functions." This particular one includes a battery box, electrical junction box, optical and magnetic aspect sensors, and apertures for ultraviolet photometers.
Transferred from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
2. X-Ray Telescope
In 1962 scientists under the direction of Riccardo Giacconi of American Science and Engineering (AS&E) flew an array of x-ray detectors aboard a U.S. Air Force Aerobee 150 that recorded, for the first time, a celestial object emitting x-rays at a far greater rate than the Sun. This telescope is similar to the instrument that made that discovery. It has several special Geiger counters for measuring "soft" X-rays, surrounded by scintillation counters that responded to more energetic x-rays. The detectors are developmental and backup versions. This instrument was assembled for display by AS&E in the mid-1960s.
Gift of American Science and Engineering
3. Nose Cone Shell
This protective cover for the Aerobee payload instrument rack provides the aerodynamic properties required for high-speed, spin-stabilized flight.
Transferred from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
4. Heliostat
This experimental heliostat, a device for tracking the Sun, was designed for Aerobees in the early 1950s at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and built by the Navy Bureau of Aircraft Armaments. It used a servo-driven mirror flanked by small electric eyes that would seek out and lock onto the Sun during flight. The mirror could then reflect a stable image of the Sun into the optical observing instruments carried within the spinning and pitching rocket. The device was efficient and compact and had low inertial properties, but it suffered from optical distortions. It was superseded by a design created by the University of Colorado.
Transferred from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
STS-90 Payload Specialist Jay Buckey, M.D., is assisted by NASA and USA closeout crew members immediately preceding launch for the nearly 17-day Neurolab mission. Investigations during the Neurolab mission will focus on the effects of microgravity on the nervous system. Linnehan and six fellow crew members will shortly enter the orbiter at KSC's Launch Pad 39B, where the Space Shuttle Columbia will lift off during a launch window that opens at 2:19 p.m. EDT, April 17. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- STS-107 Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, gets help with his suitup for Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test activities, which include a simulated launch countdown at the pad. STS-107 is a mission devoted to research and will include more than 80 experiments that will study Earth and space science, advanced technology development, and astronaut health and safety. Launch is planned for Jan. 16, 2003, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. EST aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. . Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Inside orbiter Endeavour's payload bay, a crane lifts the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) for its transfer out of the orbiter to a payload canister. The payload on mission STS-99, SRTM is being removed to allow technicians access to the orbiter's midbody for planned wiring inspections. Endeavour is in the Orbiter Processing Facility. The entire fleet of orbiters is being inspected for wiring abrasions after the problem was first discovered in Columbia. Shuttle managers are reviewing several manifest options and could establish new target launch dates for the balance of 1999 next week. Shuttle Endeavour currently remains slated for launch in early October. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
A payload canister containing the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), riding atop a payload transporter, is moved from the Space Station Processing Facility to Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 2. Once there, the SRTM, the primary payload on STS-99, will be installed into the payload bay of the orbiter Endeavour. The SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will gather data for the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface that has ever been assembled. SRTM will make use of radar interferometry, wherein two radar images are taken from slightly different locations. Differences between these images allow for the calculation of surface elevation. The SRTM hardware includes one radar antenna in the Shuttle payload bay and a second radar antenna attached to the end of a mast extended 60 meters (195 feet) from the shuttle. STS-99 is scheduled to launch Sept. 16 at 8:47 a.m. from Launch Pad 39A. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
United States Microgravity Payload-4 (USMP-4) experiments are prepared to be flown on Space Shuttle mission STS-87 in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Seen in the foreground at right is the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE), which will be used to study the dendritic solidification of molten materials in the microgravity environment. The metallic breadbox-like structure behind the IDGE is the Confined Helium Experiment (CHeX) that will study one of the basic influences on the behavior and properties of materials by using liquid helium confined between solid surface, and microgravity. These experiments are scheduled for launch aboard STS-87 on Nov. 19 from KSC. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
A payload transporter, carrying a payload canister with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) inside, pulls into Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 2. The SRTM, the primary payload on STS-99, will soon be installed into the payload bay of the orbiter Endeavour already undergoing processing in bay 2. The SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will gather data for the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface that has ever been assembled. SRTM will make use of radar interferometry, wherein two radar images are taken from slightly different locations. Differences between these images allow for the calculation of surface elevation. The SRTM hardware includes one radar antenna in the Shuttle payload bay and a second radar antenna attached to the end of a mast extended 60 meters (195 feet) from the shuttle. STS-99 is scheduled to launch Sept. 16 at 8:47 a.m. from Launch Pad 39A. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
United States Microgravity Payload-4 (USMP-4) experiments are prepared to be flown on Space Shuttle mission STS-87 in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Here, a technician is monitoring the Confined Helium Experiment, or CHeX, that will use microgravity to study one of the basic influences on the behavior and properties of materials by using liquid helium confined between silicon disks. CHeX and several other experiments are scheduled for launch aboard STS-87 on Nov. 19 from KSC. flown on STS-87, in the SSPF Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Hubble Space Telescope Orbiting Systems Test (HOST), one of the payloads on the STS-95 mission, is placed inside its payload canister in the Space Station Processing Facility. The canister is 65 feet long, 18 feet wide and 18 feet, 7 inches high. The HOST platform is carrying four experiments to validate components planned for installation during the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and to evaluate new technologies in an Earth- orbiting environment. The STS-95 mission is scheduled to launch Oct. 29. It will carry other payloads such as the Spartan solar- observing deployable spacecraft, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker (IEH-3), and the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
A crane is lowered over the payload canister with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) inside in Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) bay 2. The primary payload on STS-99, the SRTM will soon be lifted out of the canister and installed into the payload bay of the orbiter Endeavour. The SRTM consists of a specially modified radar system that will gather data for the most accurate and complete topographic map of the Earth's surface that has ever been assembled. SRTM will make use of radar interferometry, wherein two radar images are taken from slightly different locations. Differences between these images allow for the calculation of surface elevation. The SRTM hardware includes one radar antenna in the Shuttle payload bay and a second radar antenna attached to the end of a mast extended 60 meters (195 feet) from the shuttle. STS-99 is scheduled to launch Sept. 16 at 8:47 a.m. from Launch Pad 39A. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Now it is being rotated over the payload bay and under the roof to be in the proper config for installation.
Looking thru the payload bay airlock, we see Endeavour's Payload Bay. The payload bay measures 15 feet (4.6 m) by 60 feet (18.3 m) comprising most of the fuselage. The bay holds satellites, modules for the ISS, etc.
Every kilogramme is important, in particular for payload-intensive tank/dry-bulk tank transport: The MAN TGS semitrailer tractor in the weight-optimised TS variant wins points with a low unladen weight.
DE:
Besonders bei den Nutzlast-intensiven Tank-/Silo-Transporten kommt es auf jedes Kilogramm an: Die Sattelzugmaschine MAN TGS in der Gewichts-optimierten TS-Variante punktet mit geringem Eigengewicht.
UK:
Every kilogramme is important, in particular for payload-intensive tank/dry-bulk tank transport: The MAN TGS semitrailer tractor in the weight-optimised TS variant wins points with a low unladen weight.
AT:
Besonders bei den Nutzlast-intensiven Tank-/Silo-Transporten kommt es auf jedes Kilogramm an: Die Sattelzugmaschine MAN TGS in der Gewichts-optimierten TS-Variante punktet mit geringem Eigengewicht.
CH:
Besonders bei den Nutzlast-intensiven Tank-/Silo-Transporten kommt es auf jedes Kilogramm an: Die Sattelzugmaschine MAN TGS in der Gewichts-optimierten TS-Variante punktet mit geringem Eigengewicht.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, the Mars Exploration Rover 2 (MER-2) has been installed on the base petal of the lander and the solar arrays have been stowed for flight. The cruise stage is in the background. There are two rovers, identical to each other, and each will land at different regions of Mars. They are designed to cover roughly 110 yards each Martian day over various terrain. Each rover will carry five scientific instruments that will allow it to search for evidence of liquid water that may have been present in the planet's past. The first rover has a launch window opening May 30, and the second rover a window opening June 25. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Preparing NASA's Next Solar Satellite for Launch Orbital Sciences team members move the second half of the payload fairing before it is placed over NASA's IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft. The fairing connects to the nose of the Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket that will lift the solar observatory into orbit. The work is taking place in a hangar at Vandenberg Air Force Base, where IRIS is being prepared for launch on a Pegasus XL rocket. Scheduled for launch from Vandenberg on June 26, 2013, IRIS will open a new window of discovery by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the chromospheres and transition region into the sun's corona using spectrometry and imaging. IRIS fills a crucial gap in our ability to advance studies of the sun-to-Earth connection by tracing the flow of energy and plasma through the foundation of the corona and the region around the sun known as the heliosphere. Photo Credit: NASA/Tony Vauclin #nasa #nasagoddard via nasagoddard bit.ly/15098E1
In the payload changeout room at Launch Pad 39B, the SPACEHAB Double module is moved from the payload canister before being placed in Space Shuttle Discovery's payload bay for mission STS- 96. The second flight supporting construction of the International Space Station, STS-96 is a logistics and resupply mission, carrying more than 5,000 pounds of supplies, a Russian- built crane and a U.S.-built crane, plus experiments such as STARSHINE, which was developed by and for students. Comprising the crew are Commander Kent V. Rominger, Pilot Rick Douglas Husband, and Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa (Ph.D.), Tamara E. Jernigan (Ph.D.), Daniel Barry (M.D., Ph.D.), Julie Payette, with the Canadian Space Agency, and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev, with the Russian Space Agency. Liftoff is scheduled for May 20 at 9:32 a.m. EDT. room at Launch Pad 39B Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
The payload of the design classic that is the Vulcan bomber. RAF Museum Hendon. Ilford HP5 in the Seagull.
A payload capsule filled with 10 Iridium Next satellites on board a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of the Iridium-3 launch in October 2017.
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