Photo: Space Shuttle Orbiters “Discovery” and “Endeavour” Space Shuttle Orbiters “Discovery” and “Endeavour” at Kennedy Space Center this morning adjacent to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
Photos: KSC Workers Gather To Wish Atlantis Well “As Atlantis entered the VAB workers posed behind it with the banner “We’re Behind You, Atlantis” and then a few of them pulled out what appeared to be a quilt with all the mission patches sewn on it.”
Space Shuttle Discovery to Roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, NASA “Shuttle managers also decided late Monday afternoon that following the tanking test they plan to roll Discovery back into Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to allow its external tank to undergo additional image scans. Rollback is expected to occur 4-5 days after the tanking test. Once in the VAB, technicians would collect X-ray data on stringers on the […]
Inside the Firing Room with the Space Shuttle Launch Director, Ken Kremer “As Shuttle Discovery was being processed in the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) for her very final mission of exploration (STS 133), I interviewed the Space Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach inside the Shuttle Firing Room 4 at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) – where access is highly restricted. Launch Director Leinbach graciously spoke to me in the […]