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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-82 mission. The Shuttle is on a Mobile Launch Platform, and the entire assemblage is being carried by a large tracked vehicle called the Crawler Transporter. A seven-member crew will perform the second servicing of the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope (HST) during the 10-day STS-82 flight, which launched on February 11, 1997.
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Date: January 17, 1997
NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39B ahead of the Artemis II launch which will journey Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth no later than April 2026. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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A truck sprays water in front of NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 to control dust as it begins the trek to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39B ahead of the Artemis II launch which will journey Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth no later than April 2026. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 moves toward the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. The crawler will transport NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft to Launch Complex 39B ahead of the Artemis II launch which will journey Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), around the Moon and back to Earth no later than April 2026. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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The Space Shuttle Endeavour rolls out to Launch Pad 39A, the destination of its journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building, for final preparations for liftoff of the STS-89 mission. Endeavour and its crew of seven launched on January 22, 1998, and made the eighth Shuttle docking with the Russian Space Station Mir as part of Phase 1 of the International Space Station program. Mission Specialist Andy Thomas, Ph.D., succeeded Mission Specialist David Wolf, M.D., as the last NASA astronaut scheduled for a long-duration stay aboard Mir.
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“The Space Shuttle Atlantis heads back to Launch Pad 39A and liftoff on Mission STS-79 around September 12. The journey to the launch pad began shortly before 2:30 p.m. and will take approximately six hours to complete.”
...What a lackadaisical, sub-par, half-assed effort - per the norm - especially based on the following information...which I'm sure was available...
...this was after the stack had been rolled back to the VAB due to the approach of Hurricane Bertha. The SRBs were replaced during its time in the VAB. You think any of the bolded items maybe merited mention? Details at:
www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-79/
Although I wasn’t a big fan of the shuttle, other than maybe the RS-25 engines & certain technologies that the program advanced, this is a smokin’ hot photo. Maybe because the rollout commenced mid-afternoon. An amazing amount of detail is visible. I assume taken from atop the VAB.
I wonder what the white thing sort of draped on the left tail service mast is.
A ground-level view of the huge Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/ Saturn 512) space vehicle on its way to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a mammoth crawler-transporter. The crew for the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission was Eugene A. Cernan, commander; Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. The mission launched on December 7, 1972.
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Date: August 28, 1972