CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Near the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Near the Vehicle Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, old roller shaft bearing assembly parts that were removed from crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, have ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparations are underway to remove the gear boxes on the C truck of crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2. A sect... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery, on top of the ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery, on top of the mobile launcher platform and crawler-transporter, reaches Launch Pad 39B for launch of mission STS-116. On the right edge of the photo can b... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its extern...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters atop a mobile launcher platform, makes its final debut outside the Vehicle Assembly Building. "Rollou... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Thousands of spectators came out to watch spac...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Thousands of spectators came out to watch space shuttle Atlantis' historic final journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. F... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the mobile launcher parking area behind the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – In the mobile launcher parking area behind the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the new mobile launcher, or ML, for the Ares rockets is under construc... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Ground support equipment technicians monitor t...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Ground support equipment technicians monitor the progress as crawler-transporter 1 begins its trek to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. New jacking, equalizing an... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A yellow tag identifies the crawler-tran...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- A yellow tag identifies the crawler-transporter cleat that has a crack. The crack was noticed as the crawler-transporter was moving Space Shuttle Endeavour to Launch Pad 39B. Rollo... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Outside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Outside the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, members of the news media (foreground) wait in the dark for the rollout of the Ares I-X to begin. ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Ground support equipment technicians monitor th...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Ground support equipment technicians monitor the progress as one of the jacking, equalizing and leveling, or JEL, hydraulic cylinders is lifted from crawler-transporter 1 at the crawler t... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A waning full moon bears witness to space shut...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A waning full moon bears witness to space shuttle Endeavour’s rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, traveling at less than 1 mph atop a massive crawl... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, or...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, orbiter Discovery is in place on the mobile launcher platform after being lowered into high bay 3 for mating with its external tank and solid ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Sitting atop the Mobile Launcher Platfor...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Sitting atop the Mobile Launcher Platform, Space Shuttle Atlantis inches its way to the launch pad. The Shuttle and MLP rest on top of the crawler-transporter beneath it, which mo... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Viewed from the Launch Pad 39A flame trench, c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Viewed from the Launch Pad 39A flame trench, crawler-transporter No. 2 moves under a space shuttle era mobile launcher platform at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The activity wa... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers monitor space shuttle Discovery as it ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Workers monitor space shuttle Discovery as it arrives at Launch Pad 39A from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It took the shuttle, attached to its... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Crawler-transporter 1 continues its trek along...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Crawler-transporter 1 continues its trek along the crawlerway to Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. New jacking, equalizing and leveling, or JEL, hydraulic cylinde... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the sixth tower segment is lifted toward five segments already secured to a new mobile launcher, or ML, being constructed to support the Constel... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the tower on a new mobile launcher, or ML, for the Constellation Program grows as the fourth section is lowered into position. The tower will... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, mounted on a mo...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, mounted on a mobile launch platform atop a crawler transporter, begins the climb to the top of Launch Pad 39A. First motion of the shuttle out of the Vehi... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery rolls toward La...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery rolls toward Launch Pad 39B. Launch Pad 39A is in the background. The shuttle rests on a mobile launcher platform that sits atop a crawler-transporter. ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this aerial view of the mobile launcher park site area north of the 525-foot-tall Vehicle Assembly Building shows a new mobile launcher, or ML, ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery arrives at Launch Pad ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery arrives at Launch Pad 39A from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It took the shuttle, attached to its external fuel tank, t... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its extern...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Atlantis, attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters atop a mobile launcher platform, awaits its final journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launc... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crawler-transporter moves toward NASA's new mobile launcher (ML) support structure. The crawler will transport the ML from a construction sit... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Crawler Transporter (CT) area, a w...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Crawler Transporter (CT) area, a worker offloads some of the new crawler shoes that arrived. In the background is one of the two CTs. The new shoes were manufactured by ME G... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Various vehicles escort space shuttle Atlantis...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Various vehicles escort space shuttle Atlantis as it crawls toward Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle stack, with solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank at... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Operations are under way to roll the protectiv...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Operations are under way to roll the protective rotating service structure, at left, around space shuttle Endeavour upon its arrival at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in F... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour is hard down on Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour is hard down on Launch Pad 39B. The shuttle and mobile launcher platform it sits on rest atop the crawler-transporter that carried them from the Vehicle Assembly... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Just before dawn, space shuttle Endeavour, inst...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Just before dawn, space shuttle Endeavour, installed on the mobile launcher platform atop the crawler-transporter, is on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. First ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, cra...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, crawler-transporter No. 2 moves a space shuttle era mobile launcher platform at Launch Pad 39A. The activity was part of testing to check out r... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Bathed in bright xenon lights, space shuttle D...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Bathed in bright xenon lights, space shuttle Discovery makes its nighttime trek, known as "rollout," from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center i... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a crawler-transporter moves NASA's new mobile launcher (ML) support structure from a construction site, north of the Vehicle Assembly Building,... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, is on its way to the Park Site west of the Vehicle Assembly Building. The transporter has new brakes and muf... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, wor...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers monitor the progress of a crawler-transporter as it moves NASA's new mobile launcher (ML) support structure from a construction site, n... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The sun lights the early morning sky, r...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The sun lights the early morning sky, revealing Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop the Mobile Launcher Platform and Crawler-Transporter, at Launch Pad 39B. It started its 8-hour rollout... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour, attached to its exter...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Endeavour, attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters atop a crawler-transporter, is ready for its slow move from High Bay 3 in the Vehicle Assembly Build... More
This aerial photo captures many of the facilities involved in Space Sh...
This aerial photo captures many of the facilities involved in Space Shuttle launches. At center is the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). The curved road on the near side is the newly restored crawlerway leading ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Under a feather-painted sky, Space Shut...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Under a feather-painted sky, Space Shuttle Atlantis, mounted on a mobile launch platform atop a crawler transporter, creeps up the ramp to Launch Pad 39A. This is the second roll... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Brilliant lights illuminate the mobile...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Brilliant lights illuminate the mobile launcher platform and crawler transporter as space shuttle Endeavour makes its way to Launch Pad 39A for the STS-123 mission. At left, the... More
Space Shuttle Endeavour finally rests on Launch Pad 39B after its roll...
Space Shuttle Endeavour finally rests on Launch Pad 39B after its rollout was stalled several hours to fix a broken cleat on the crawler-transporter. At the far left is the Rotating Service Structure. From the ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery nears its desti...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Discovery nears its destination on its rollout to Launch Pad 39B. Discovery rests on top of the mobile launcher platform, which is carried by the crawler-transporte... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop the mobile ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis, atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler-transporter, sits on launch Pad 39A with the Atlantic Ocean in the background after having traveled 3.4 miles ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis inches its way ou...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Shuttle Atlantis inches its way out the doors of the Vehicle Assembly Building as it begins rolling out to Launch Pad 39A for the second time. An attempt to roll out on Jan. ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery looms against the pre-...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery looms against the pre-dawn, cloud-streaked sky as it makes the slow 3.4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39A. The shuttle sits atop the mobile launcher platform, which... More
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dr. Kurt...
CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. -- At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dr. Kurt H. Debus, center director, speaks at the "topping off" ceremonies for the Vehicle Assembly Building. A crawler-transporter is seen at the r... More
Apollo 12 Saturn V on Transporter
The transporter carries the 363-foot-high Apollo 12 Saturn V space vehicle from the VAB's High Bay 3 at the start of the 3.5 mile rollout to Launch Complex 39A today. The transporter carried the 12.8 million po... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the crawler-transporter delivers space shuttle Discovery atop the mobile launcher platform onto Launch Pad 39A. Traveling from the Vehicle Assem... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis comes to a stop on the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis comes to a stop on the top of Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center after more than a 6-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. First motion occur... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis has passed the bend in ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Atlantis has passed the bend in the crawlerway taking it to Launch Pad 39A, above left, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The crawlerway is flanked by the Banana River at r... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mob...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Mobile Launcher Platform-3 (MLP), which supported space shuttle Atlantis for its final flight to the International Space Station on the STS-135... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour on Launch Pad 39B is v...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour on Launch Pad 39B is viewed from the air after the rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle and mobile launcher pla... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Sitting on the mobile launcher platfo...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Sitting on the mobile launcher platform, Space Shuttle Discovery rolls toward Launch Pad 39B via the crawler transporter. First motion of the shuttle from NASA's Vehicle Assemb... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Endeavour and the Mobile L...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Space Shuttle Endeavour and the Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP) start backing through the gate to Launch Pad 39B after a cracked cleat was discovered on the crawler-transporter. Wor... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The crawler-transporter is positioned under the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The crawler-transporter is positioned under the mobile launcher platform with the 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket. The rocket is prepared to leave the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Ke... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The interior of NASA's new mobile launcher, or...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The interior of NASA's new mobile launcher, or ML, support structure is outfitted with solid steel flooring, lights, air conditioning, electrical boxes and sprinkler piping at NASA's Ken... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A crawler-transporter creeps toward Mobile Lau...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A crawler-transporter creeps toward Mobile Launcher Platform-2, or MLP-2, on the hardstand at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Operations are underway to move th... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, wor...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers monitor the progress of a crawler-transporter as it moves NASA's new mobile launcher (ML) support structure from a construction site, n... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This panoramic view shows NASA's new mobile la...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- This panoramic view shows NASA's new mobile launcher, or ML, support structure standing tall at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It took about two years to construct the launcher ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the massive c...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the massive crawler-transporter carrying space shuttle Endeavour approaches the launch pad. First motion of Endeavour from the Vehicle Assembly Building... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Sitting atop the Mobile Launcher Platform...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Sitting atop the Mobile Launcher Platform, Space Shuttle Atlantis towers above the workers aboard. The Shuttle and MLP rest on top of the crawler-transporter beneath it, which move... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-134 Pilot Greg H. Johnson talks to media a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-134 Pilot Greg H. Johnson talks to media as the space shuttle that will take Johnson and his crewmates to the International Space Station slowly rolls past. Endeavour began its move ... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prepare to jack crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of t... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are jacking crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of the r... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are preparing to jack crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate remova... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are jacking crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of the r... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are jacking crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of the r... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Ken...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a technician positions a jack to lift crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate re... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are preparing to jack crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate remova... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prepare to jack crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of t... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, begin jacking crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of the... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are preparing to jack crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate remova... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are removing track shoes from crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, prior to jacking it four feet off t... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Ken...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a technician uses a fork lift to remove track shoes from crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, prior to jacking it f... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, are removing track shoes from crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, prior to jacking it four feet off th... More
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Technicians in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, prepare to jack crawler-transporter 2, or CT-2, four feet off the floor to facilitate removal of t... More
Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise, mated to a 15-story-tall external pr...
Space Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise, mated to a 15-story-tall external propellant tank and twin inert solid rocket boosters on top of a Mobile Launcher Platform, is rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building fro... More
Ground level views of the Columbia rollout for the STS-5 mission
S82-37810 (21 Sept. 1982) --- The space shuttle Columbia makes its slow 3 ? mile trip on a crawler transporter from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The trip be... More
Rollout - Shuttle Discovery - STS 41D Launch - KSC
S86-41700 (19 May 1984) --- The Space Shuttle Discovery moves towards Pad A on the crawler transporter for its maiden flight. Discovery will be launched on its first mission no earlier than June 19, 1984. Flig... More
Rollout - Shuttle Discovery - STS 41D Launch - KSC
The Space Shuttle Discovery moves towards Pad "A" on the crawler transporter for its maiden flight. The Shuttle Discovery is poised atop Pad "A" at Complex 39 prior ot the STS-41D mission. KSC, FL
STS-26 Discovery, OV-103, rolls out of KSC VAB into darkness of the ni...
STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, mated with the external tank (ET) and solid rocket boosters (SRBs), is framed by Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) vehicle assembly building (VAB) doorway as it rolled o... More
STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, roll out to KSC LC pad 39B
STS-26 Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, rolls out to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch complex (LC) pad 39B on top of the crawler transporter. OV-103 nears LC pad 39B after a six-hour journey from the vehic... More
STS-30 Atlantis, OV-104, nears KSC LC Pad 39B atop the crawler transpo...
S89-30719 (22 March 1989) --- Space shuttle Atlantis is seen soon in duplicate, thanks to reflection in nearby water, after arriving at Pad 39-B. The spacecraft left the vehicle assembly building (VAB) at 12:0... More
STS-28 Columbia, OV-102, is left at KSC LC Pad 39B by crawler transpor...
S89-41096 (15 July 1989) --- The space shuttle Columbia was rolled to Launch Pad 39B on July 15 in preparation for its September 1989 Department of Defense (DOD)-devoted mission.
STS-28 Columbia, OV-102, night time processing at KSC LC Pad 39B
STS-28 Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, arrives at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39B. View taken from ground level, shows OV-102 with external tank (ET) and solid rocket boosters (SRBs) ... More
STS-32 Columbia, OV-102, rolls through the foggy mist to KSC LC Pad 39...
STS-32 Columbia, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102, rolls through the morning's foggy mist atop the mobile launcher platform and crawler transporter to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex (LC) Pad 39A. OV-102's wi... More
Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-70 Rollout
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 ... More
A massive 19 million pounds-plus (8.6 million kilograms) of Space Shut...
A massive 19 million pounds-plus (8.6 million kilograms) of Space Shuttle, support and transport hardware inch toward Launch Pad 39A from the Vehicle Assembly Building. The fully asssembled Space Shuttle Endeav... More
The Space Shuttle Discovery slowly and carefully makes the 4.2- mile (...
The Space Shuttle Discovery slowly and carefully makes the 4.2- mile (6.8 kilometer) trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building, background at right, to Launch Pad 39B on its Mobile Launcher Platform carried by th... More
Space Shuttle Discovery, STS-82 Rollout
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-83 mission. The Shuttl... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The rising sun and some scattered clouds...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - 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 ... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After leaving the Vehicle Assembly Build...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Space Shuttle Discovery makes its slow - up to 1 mile per hour - trek along the crawlerway to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for the... More
STS-82 Discovery moves toward Launch Pad 39A
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA STS-82 PREPARATIONS VIEW --- Scattered clouds at dawn provide the backdrop for the Space Shuttle Discovery as it moves along the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Crawlerway toward Launc... More
STS-82 Discovery moves toward Launch Pad 39A
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA STS-82 ROLL-OUT VIEW --- After departing the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), the Space Shuttle Discovery moves slowly - about one mile per hour - along the Kennedy Space Center (... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Space Shuttle Atlantis sits majesti...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- The Space Shuttle Atlantis sits majestically atop its Mobile Launcher Platform and a Crawler-Transporter which straddle the Launch Pad 39A flame trench. This view shows only a por... More
In preparation for Space Shuttle Mission STS-87, Columbia rolls out to...
In preparation for Space Shuttle Mission STS-87, Columbia rolls out to Launch Complex 39B atop the crawler-transporter. STS-87 will be the fourth flight of the United States Microgravity Payload and the Spartan... More
In preparation for Space Shuttle Mission STS-87, Columbia rolls out to...
In preparation for Space Shuttle Mission STS-87, Columbia rolls out to Launch Complex 39B atop the crawler-transporter. STS-87 will be the fourth flight of the United States Microgravity Payload and the Spartan... More
In preparation for Space Shuttle Mission STS-87, Columbia rolls out to...
In preparation for Space Shuttle Mission STS-87, Columbia rolls out to Launch Complex 39B atop the crawler-transporter. STS-87 will be the fourth flight of the United States Microgravity Payload and the Spartan... More
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Shuttle Columbia continues up ...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Shuttle Columbia continues up the ramp to Launch Pad 39B in its morning rollout prior to STS-90. Leveling systems within the crawler-transporter underneath the Shuttle ke... More
In this aerial view looking south can be seen Launch Complex (LC) 39 a...
In this aerial view looking south can be seen Launch Complex (LC) 39 area, where assembly, checkout and launch of the Space Shuttle Orbiter and its External Tank and twin Solid Rocket Boosters take place. Centr... More
At the end of its 6-hour, 4.2-mile circular trek from the Vehicle Asse...
At the end of its 6-hour, 4.2-mile circular trek from the Vehicle Assembly Building, the STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery, still on the Mobile Launch Platform and crawler transporter, sits at Launch Pad 39B. To i... More