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Take a look inside one of the emergency egress baskets at Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From the 195-foot level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A, STS-117...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From the 195-foot level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A, STS-117...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Commander Rick Sturckow (right) gives a thumbs up after he and Pilot...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the 195-foot level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A, STS-117...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the 195-foot level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A, STS-117...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- From the 195-foot level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A, STS-117...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the 195-foot level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A, STS-117 Pilot...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Commander Rick Sturckow sits in the cockpit of Space Shuttle Atlantis...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Pilot Lee Archambault sits in the cockpit of Space Shuttle Atlantis at...
S63-07632 (15 May 1963) --- Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. leaves the transfer van for the launch pad and the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Mission Specialists James Reilly (left) and Danny Olivas sit in the...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Mission Specialist James Reilly egresses from Space Shuttle Atlantis...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Mission Specialist Steven Swanson sits inside Space Shuttle Atlantis...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Mission Specialist Patrick Forrester sits inside Space Shuttle...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Mission STS-117 Commander Rick Sturckow completes emergency egress procedures at the...
STS066-S-003 (3 November 1994) --- In the white room at Launch Pad 39B, Jean-Francois Clervoy, mission specialist...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On the 215-foot level of the fixed service structure on Launch Pad 39A, Mission...
Return to the Pad: Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on Apollo 11 Launch
S88-40898 (4 May 1988) --- Astronauts, members of the orbiter close-out crew and fire and rescue personnel...
S66-42702 (12 July 1966) --- Gemini-10 prime crew, astronauts John W. Young (left), command pilot, and Michael...
S66-42704 (12 July 1966) --- Astronaut Michael Collins, prime crew pilot for the Gemini-10 spaceflight, is seen...
S82-32200 (29 May 1982) --- Members of the JSC astronaut corps, STS-4 vehicle integration test team (VITT) and other...
S82-32202 (29 May 1982) --- Astronauts Thomas K. (Ken) Mattingly II, center foreground, and Henry W. Hartsfield Jr.,...