KSC-08pd0623
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the Railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, one of the spent segments of a solid rocket booster from the STS-122 mission is lifted off the flatbed truck. The segment will be placed onto a railroad car for transportation to Utah. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard. The covered segments will be moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to the Thiokol plant in Wa¬satch, Utah. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
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March 5, 2008
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Kennedy Space Center, FL
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