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... Discovery is scheduled to roll back from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for additional work related to its final ... shuttle is targeted for 12:30 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 21. In the VAB, technicians will scan below the foam insulation surrounding the intertank section of Discovery's external ... rocket boosters, is mounted on a mobile launcher platform and will be returned to the VAB atop a crawler transporter. The crawler will travel slower than 1 mph during the 3 ...

... pad A, Launch Complex 39 , within the week. Mating Columbia in the VAB to its external propellant tank and solid-fuel rocket boosters November 24 was followed by ... its place under the mobile launch platform December 28. Senior NASA managers would review the VAB tests and pad A status before rollout to make sure no constraints existed. ( KENNEDY SPACE ...

... . -- Journalists are invited to cover space shuttle Discovery's move from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to Launch Pad 39A on Monday, Jan. 31 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ... scheduled flight for Discovery before it is retired. Discovery's first motion out of the VAB to the pad is scheduled for 8 p.m. EST. NASA Television will provide live ... carrier plate. The spacecraft was rolled off of the launch pad and back into the VAB on Dec. 21, 2010, to allow technicians to perform X-ray type scans and repairs ...

... and Government personnel, was hoisted into place in the upper reaches of VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING VAB 's steel skeleton, Scheduled for completion in 1966 as an integral part of Launch Complex 39 , VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING VAB would have 7.5 acres of floor area, would be 525 ft, tall, 518 ft ...

... a $5 137 000 contract to Mayfair Construction Co. to modify the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for Space Shuttle operations. The contract provided for modifications to High Bay 3's extensible ... new checkout cells in High Bay 4, and modifications to the north door of the VAB transfer aisle and related support facilities. (KSC Release 160-75) July 1975 July August 1975 ...

... 1976. The flag, measuring 64 m by 33.5 m, would be painted on the VAB-world's second largest building-along with a huge Bicentennial symbol 33.5 m in ... Bicentennial administration would pay for the painting. The 160-m-high south wall of the VAB would be washed down, rinsed, and primed with white before the finishing coat of white ...

... time a complete Space Shuttle configuration had been put together in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and moved to the launch pad; use of the Enterprise Space Shuttle Enterprise would confirm ... visitors to the center viewed the assembly moving down the 2-mile towway to the VAB, into which Enterprise Space Shuttle Enterprise was moved April 18. The delta-wing orbiter would ...

... CENTER KSC 's orbiter-processing facility at 6:01 p.m. and moved to the VAB for mating to its external tank and solid-fuel rocket boosters. Next rollout, from VAB to launch pad, would occur late in December. (NASA Dly Am Rpt Nov 26/80; ...

... reported that Shuttle orbiter Columbia , mated with other elements on a mobile launcher in the VAB, was ready for its first major test as a unified system. On November 24, Columbia moved 300 yards from the VAB to the orbiter-processing facility where solid-fuel rocket boosters and external tank had been ...

... assembly facility for Shuttle solid-fuel rocket boosters elsewhere than in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC . High production rates required in the 1986-and-later timeframe could not occur in the available space; also, the VAB did not lend itself to efficient "factory operation" for refurbishment of the solid-fuel rocket ...

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