Fulfilling an objective it had been designed to complete decades before, 37 Shuttle missions carried the majority of the hardware needed to build the ISS and then acted as a ferry and supply train for early resident crews to the station. Building upon the decades of development and experience ...
(Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster,SSSRB) STS-134任务使用的固体助推器正在运送至飞行器装配大楼(Vehicle Assembly Building,VAB)进行总装 (为避免和SRB概念混淆,并考虑到RSRM是后期开始启用的,前期为SRM,所以本文全部把航天飞机固体助推器称为SSSRB,即加上Space Shuttle的缩写以便区分) SSSRB是世界上第一款可以重...
Leaving the launch pad and rolling back to the Vehicle Assembly Building overnight, the space shuttle Discovery will spend the holidays having the external tank X-rayed as engineers look into the theory that its cracks resulted from stresses accumulated
a year after the pad's final space shuttle launch but before the fixed (at center) and rotating (at left) service structures began being dismantled. The mobile launch platform to the right was moved by crawler transporter off the pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building three miles away...
The Space Shuttle was stacked in the Vehicle Assembly Building, and the stack mounted on a mobile launch platform held down by four frangible nuts on each SRB, which were detonated at launch.The Shuttle stack launched vertically like a conventional rocket. It lifted off under the power of ...
Space shuttle, partially reusable rocket-launched vehicle designed to go into orbit around Earth, to transport people and cargo to and from orbiting spacecraft, and to glide to a runway landing on its return to Earth’s surface. It was developed by NASA
space shuttle flight STS-88 launched the NASA Unity/Node 1 module. Astronauts performed spacewalks during STS-88 to connect the two parts of the station together; later, other pieces of the station were launched on rockets or in the space shuttle cargo bay. Some of the other major modules ...
o Apr 27 – May 2 — European Geoscience Union,Vienna, Austria:EGU General Assembly; includessub-programs on Moon and Solar System planets. ☾ Apr 27 — Moon:At perigee, distance 357,113 km, 06:13; New Moon, 09:32. « NewerPrevious »...
The Crawler-Transporter carried the Mobile Launcher Platform and the space shuttle from the Vehicle Assembly Building(VAB) to Launch Complex 39, originally built for Project Apollo. The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) were two modified Boeing 747s. Either could fly an orbiter from alternative landing...
Space shuttle Atlantis rolls along the crawlerway toward Launch pad 39A, in the background, after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 4, 2008. The shuttle is due to launch in October 2008 to the Hubble Space Telescope.(Image credit: NASA/Kim Shif...