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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - In the Payload Changeout Room, or PCR, on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Technicians facilitate the transfer the STS-106 payload to Atlantis on Launch Pad 39-B...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- During the transfer the STS-106 payload to Atlantis on Launch Pad 39-B, a technician...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload ground-handling...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload ground-handling...
Josh Waters (left), ground test conductor, and Teresa Annulis, assistant ground test conductor, participate in an...
How are payloads installed on the Space Shuttle orbiter? Now the payload bay is usually filled with one, two, or...
Inside the Launch Control Center’s Firing Room 1 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Ryan Bowers, a ground...
A ground support technician checks the giant treads on crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the vehicle moves slowly...
A ground support technician walks alongside crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the vehicle moves slowly along the...
A construction worker monitors the progress as crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) lifts the mobile launcher up a few...
The space shuttle Enterprise is seen mated on top of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) at Washington...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians use a special handling device to bring...
Ground support technicians check out the treads on crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the vehicle moves slowly along...
A ground support technician checks the new hydraulic cylinders on crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the vehicle moves...
Workers watch as crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) lifts the mobile launcher up a few inches from its support posts June...
A construction worker monitors the progress as crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) lifts the mobile launcher up a few...
NASA Orbiter Transition & Retirement team member Tom Goebel monitors the installation of "rain covers" over space...
Michael Dennison, left, and James Ross, ground cooling system engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,...
A ground support technician walks alongside crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the vehicle moves slowly along the...
Ground support technicians walks alongside crawler-transporter 2 (CT-2) as the vehicle moves slowly along the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers check data on the payload ground handling...
A crane is used to lower the first of two Tail Service Mast Umbilicals for installation on the 0-level deck of the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, all of the old crawler track...