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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Vehicle for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo 11, Lunar Landing mission is rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building down the 3.5 mile Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39-A at a speed of one mile per hour.
The flight crew of the Apollo 11 mission is Neil A. Armstrong, Commander, Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot. The preliminary flight plan for the Apollo 11 mission, scheduled for launch no earlier than July 16 calls for touchdown on the Moon at 2:22 PM EDT, July 20.
The Soyuz booster rocket and MS-11 spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Sat. Dec.1, 2018 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Dec. 3 and will carry Expedition 58 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) into orbit to begin their six and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)
The STS-36 vehicle and launch platform were rolled out to Launch Pad 39A on January 25, 1990, after the shortest stay in the Vehicle Assembly Building since return-to-flight after the Challenger accident. The distance between the VAB and Pad 39A is about 3.4 miles. Atlantis was being prepared for launch on Mission STS-36 dedicated to the Department of Defense. The launch took place on February 28, 1990.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 90PC-0134
Date: January 25, 1990
With launch set for 13 December, the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Meteosat Third Generation Imager (MTG-I1) satellite is rolling out to the launch pad. The rocket also carries two ‘co-passenger’ satellites: Intelsat Galaxy 35 and 36. MTGI-1 carries two completely new instrument that will deliver high-quality data to improve weather forecasts: a Flexible Combined Imager and Europe’s first Lightning Imager.
Once in geostationary orbit, 36,000 km above the equator, the all-new MTG-I1 weather satellite will provide state-of-the art observations of Earth’s atmosphere and realtime monitoring of lightning events, taking weather forecasting to the next level.
MTGI-1 carries two completely new instrument that will deliver high-quality data to improve weather forecasts: a Flexible Combined Imager and Europe’s first Lightning Imager.
The Flexible Combined Imager has more spectral channels and is capable of imaging in higher resolution compared to current Meteosat Second Generation’s Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared instrument.
The Lightning Imager offers a completely new capability for European meteorological satellites. It will continuously monitor more than 80% of the Earth disc for lightning discharges, taking place either between clouds or between clouds and the ground. This new instrument will allow severe storms to be detected in their early stages and will therefore be key for issuing timely warnings. Its detectors are so sensitive that will be able to detect relatively weak lightning, even in full daylight.
Credits: ESA - M. Pedoussaut
The rising sun and some scattered clouds provide a picturesque backdrop for the Space Shuttle Discovery as it travels along the Crawlerway toward Launch Pad 39A in preparation for the STS-82 mission. The Shuttle is on a Mobile Launch Platform, and the entire assemblage is being carried by a large tracked vehicle called the Crawler Transporter. A seven-member crew will perform the second servicing of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the 10-day STS-82 flight, which launched on February 11, 1997.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 95PC-0112
Date: January 17, 1997
The Proton rocket that will launch the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft to Mars being moved into a vertical position at the launch pad at Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Launch is scheduled for 09:31 GMT on 14 March. Watch on the ESA website.
Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja
(August 20, 1996) The Space Shuttle Atlantis heads back to Launch Pad 39A and liftoff on Mission STS-79 around September 12. The journey to the launch pad began shortly before 2:30 p.m. on August 20, 1996 and took approximately six hours to complete.
Credit: NASA
Image Number:96PC-0993
Date: August 20, 1996
The Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft that will transport ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to the International Space Station is rolled out onto launchpad number one at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
This rocket will be launched on Saturday 20 July, marking the start of Luca’s second space mission known as Beyond.
In the lead-up to liftoff, component parts of a Soyuz spacecraft are brought to Kazakhstan to be assembled. Once the rocket is ready, it is loaded onto a train and transported to the launchpad.
The rollout happens in the morning, two days ahead of launch day. It is considered bad luck for the crew to witness this rollout or see the rocket again before the day of their launch, though the rollout is witnessed by the backup crew and support teams.
When the train arrives at its destination on the launchpad, the rocket is put into position. When it is fully lifted, four green arms ensure it is secured correctly for liftoff. These arms will mechanically rotate away to release the rocket at the time of launch.
After the rocket has been secured, the service structure containing the stairs and elevator as well as the umbilical towers that provide fuel and liquid oxygen, are erected.
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecrCorvajaaft is rolled out by train, on 21 November 2014, from the MIK 40 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 31, in Kazakhstan.
The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts of NASA, is scheduled on 23 November at 20:59 GMT (21:59 CET).
Samantha was assigned to the Futura mission more than two years ago and has travelled the world training on all the elements of the most complex machine ever built: the International Space Station. She learnt how to control the Station’s robotic arms, how to handle any emergency and how to perform all the scientific experiments she will run for the scientists on Earth.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Shortly before dawn, a red-rimmed moon helped to light the way for the Space Shuttle Atlantis as it rolled out to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for launch of Mission STS-86 on September 26, 1997. STS-86 was the seventh docking of the Space Shuttle with the Russian Space Station Mir.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 97PC-1249
Date: August 18, 1997
Ariane 5 VA 260 with Juice, start of rollout on Tuesday 11 April.
Juice is being prepared to launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 April 2023.
Juice – JUpiter ICy moons Explorer – is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will characterise Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
Following launch, Juice will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, arriving in July 2031 with the aid of momentum and direction gained from four gravity-assist fly-bys of the Earth-Moon system, Venus and, twice, Earth.
Flight VA260 will be the final Ariane 5 flight to carry an ESA mission to space.
Find out more about Juice in ESA’s launch kit
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Crawler Transporter brings the Space Shuttle Discovery on its Mobile Launcher Platform into position at Launch Pad 39B, following rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The Fixed Service Structure and the Rotating Service Structure, permanent parts of the launch pad, are left of the Shuttle. Discovery and its crew of five lifted off on July 13, 1995, on a satellite deployment mission, STS-70. Meanwhile, sister ship Atlantis was poised for launch from Pad 39A on a mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Mir Space Station. Atlantis lifted off on STS-71 on June 27, 1995.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 95PC-0668
Date: May 11, 1995
The Proton rocket that will launch the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft to Mars being moved into a vertical position at the launch pad at Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Launch is scheduled for 09:31 GMT on 14 March. Watch on the ESA website.
Credit: ESA-Stephane Corvaja
The rocket that will launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon with the European Service Module on its way to the launchpad in Florida, USA, for its first full test before the Artemis I launch later this year.
The Space Launch Systems rocket (SLS) left the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at around 23:00 CET (22:00 GMT) on 17 March on the start of its 6.5 km trip to Launchpad LC39B.
In the preceding months the Orion spacecraft with European Service Module had been placed on top of the rocket. 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 with water, oxygen, power and temperature control.
Credits: ESA–A. Conigli
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Aerial view showing Space Shuttle Columbia at Launch Pad 39B following rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building; Columbia is being prepared for Mission STS-75.
Credit: NASA
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Date: January 29, 1996
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket is rolled from the Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) to launch Pad-0A, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital ATK’s sixth contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver over 5,100 pounds of science and research, crew supplies and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
The rocket that will launch NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon with the European Service Module on its way to the launchpad in Florida, USA, for its first full test before the Artemis I launch later this year.
The Space Launch Systems rocket (SLS) left the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at around 23:00 CET (22:00 GMT) on 17 March on the start of its 6.5 km trip to Launchpad LC39B.
In the preceding months the Orion spacecraft with European Service Module had been placed on top of the rocket. 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 with water, oxygen, power and temperature control.
Credits: ESA–A. Conigli
The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft is seen in this black and white infrared view after being raised into a vertical position on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Expedition 52 flight engineer Sergei Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, flight engineer Randy Bresnik of NASA, and flight engineer Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), launched to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome two days later, on July 28, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Image Number: NHQ201707260039
Date: July 26, 2017
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Have fun comparing to the first time I posted about this jewelry ages ago. More things change, the more things remain the same?
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A massive 19 million pounds (8.6 million kilograms) of Space Shuttle, support and transport hardware, inch toward Launch Pad 39A from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The fully assembled Space Shuttle Endeavour, minus its payloads, weighs about 4.5 million pounds (2 million kg.); the mobile launch platform on which it was stacked and from which it will lift off weighs 9.25 million pounds (4.19 million kg.) and the crawler-transporter carrying the platform and Shuttle checks in at around 6 million pounds (2.7 million kg.). Once at the pad, the Shuttle and launch platform will be positioned atop support columns to complete preparations for the second Shuttle launch of 1995. Primary payload of Mission STS-67 is the Astro-2 astrophysics observatory, carrying three ultraviolet telescopes that flew on the Astro-1 mission in 1990. STS-67 also is scheduled to become the longest Shuttle flight to date, lasting 16 days.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 95PC-0285
Date: February 8, 1995
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A striking 1962/63 North American Aviation (NAA) artist’s concept – by Gary Meyer – of rollout of the Apollo Saturn rocket. Note that the Vertical Assembly Building (VAB), which is what I think it would’ve been referred to as of this time, has three exit/entry openings. Also, the interesting pillar-supported docks along the canal/turning basin near the VAB.
Yet again, having seen this, in black & white, countless times, in (I think) multiple documents/publications, I expected at least a couple of Google image search results. Nope, not a one. Fortunately, it’s featured in the wonderful NAA/NASA film from the time, entitled “The Apollo Mission”. My sincerest thanks to Peter Duncan & “FREE HIGH RESOLUTION PUBLIC DOMAIN SPACE PHOTOS” here on Flickr, for finding and pointing out to me where it now resides. No surprise actually…the wonderful Internet Archive website:
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And finally, immense & heartfelt gratitude to Jeff Quitney for continuing to make this, and so many other fantastic visual historical resources available - FOR FREE!!! Bravo Sir, BRAVO!!!
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Ariane 5 VA 260 with Juice, start of rollout on Tuesday 11 April.
Juice is being prepared to launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 April 2023.
Juice – JUpiter ICy moons Explorer – is humankind’s next bold mission to the outer Solar System. This ambitious mission will characterise Ganymede, Callisto and Europa with a powerful suite of remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments to discover more about these compelling destinations as potential habitats for past or present life. Juice will monitor Jupiter’s complex magnetic, radiation and plasma environment in depth and its interplay with the moons, studying the Jupiter system as an archetype for gas giant systems across the Universe.
Following launch, Juice will embark on an eight-year journey to Jupiter, arriving in July 2031 with the aid of momentum and direction gained from four gravity-assist fly-bys of the Earth-Moon system, Venus and, twice, Earth.
Flight VA260 will be the final Ariane 5 flight to carry an ESA mission to space.
Find out more about Juice in ESA’s launch kit
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Space Shuttle Atlantis departs the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) with its destination, Launch Pad 39A, visible in the distance. The trip marked the second time Atlantis was rolled out to the pad for STS-79. The Shuttle was rolled back from Pad 39A in July due to the threat from Hurricane Bertha, and then stayed long enough to allow a swap out of its original solid rocket boosters with another set. Atlantis lifted off on Mission STS-79 on September 16, 1996.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 96PC-0995
Date: August 20, 1996
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft is rolled out by train, on 21 November 2014, from the MIK 40 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 31, in Kazakhstan.
The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 42/43 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, Roscosmos commander Anton Shkaplerov and Terry Virts of NASA, is scheduled on 23 November at 20:59 GMT (21:59 CET).
Samantha was assigned to the Futura mission more than two years ago and has travelled the world training on all the elements of the most complex machine ever built: the International Space Station. She learnt how to control the Station’s robotic arms, how to handle any emergency and how to perform all the scientific experiments she will run for the scientists on Earth.
Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad by train on Friday, Nov. 21, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Nov. 24 and will carry Expedition 42 Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA , and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
The Soyuz launcher is moved into vertical position, on 14 November 2016, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and commander Oleg Novitsky will be launched 17 November for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
Follow Thomas via thomaspesquet.esa.int and check out the Proxima mission blog for updates.
Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2016
Recently restored by the Commemorative Air Force 'Dixie Wing', P-63 Kingcobra rollouts during it's landing on completion of it's flying display.
Space Shuttle Discovery rolls out to launch pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on September 20, 2010 in preparation for her final mission, STS-133.
Space Shuttle Orbiter Vehicle 101 (OV-101), "Enterprise" during rollout, September 17, 1976, at Rockwell International Space Division's orbiter assembly facility at Palmdale, California. A crowd of 2,000 NASA, congressional and industry people, and invited guests were on hand at Palmdale for the first public viewing of the DC-9 sized vehicle.
I've identified it as a Rockwell International photo due to the barely visible photo identification number at the lower right edge of the image, which looks to be like those of NAA images of Apollo spacecraft construction.
I like that the photo has only three carbon-based infestations in the immediate vicinity of the Enterprise, not the throng usually in images of this event, nor even the iconic images of the esteemed crewmembers, taken from a similar perspective. And, most importantly, no cling-ons, err...Klingons.
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The orbiter Atlantis, strapped to 19-stories of space shuttle solid rocket booster and external fuel tank, crawls out the door of the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building for the final time April 21 at 11:31pm EDT, the start of its six-hour 3.4 mile trip to Pad 39A.
An Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket is seen on launch Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Monday, January 6, 2014 in advance of a planned Wednesday, Jan. 8th, 1:32 p.m. EST launch, Wallops Island, VA. The Antares will launch a Cygnus spacecraft on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The Orbital-1 mission is Orbital Sciences' first contracted cargo delivery flight to the space station for NASA. Among the cargo aboard Cygnus set to launch to the space station are science experiments, crew provisions, spare parts and other hardware.
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Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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