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Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities E-mail
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Shuttle "Discovery":
Pre-Flight Activities, Rarely Seen by the General Public

These photos deserve a wide viewing audience: the amount of thought and engineering that goes into every launch is immense; each successful take-off represents the Mankind's finest effort, and is a wonder to behold.

Space Exploration
External tank arrives by barge from Louisiana:
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External tank approaches Vertical Assembly Building (VAB):
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Removing external tank:
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Preparing to lift the tank to vertical:
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Lifting the tank:
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Solid rockets are attached:
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Orbiter: External tank with Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB):
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Engines are attached to the shuttle in the Orbiter Processing Facility:
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Shuttle in sling ready for lift in VAB:
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Shuttle has been moved to VAB and will be attached to external tank:
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Shuttle is attached:
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Payload Preparation in Space Station Processing Facility:
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Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM):
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Payload carrier leaves Canister Rotation Facility:
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Payload being moved to Launch Pad:
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Lifting payload into position for insertion into "Discovery"
when it arrives at the pad:
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Shuttle "Discovery" leaves VAB:
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Trip to launch:
Length - 3 1/2 mi
Time - 6-8 hours
Arrow indicates the Launch Pad.
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Crawler Control
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"Discovery" arrives at Pad:
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Payload is also inside the Launch Pad:
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Ready for Launch:
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We Have Lift Off !
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0 #1 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — anilkumar_sathe14111978 2008-05-15 19:23
Hi hw r u?
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+6 #2 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — sibite kazim 2008-05-16 00:34
very nice its realy infrmative and helpful to acquire knoledge.
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+3 #3 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — suresh64 2008-05-17 01:29
marvels,It is one of the uesful photos. :roll:
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-1 #4 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — mohammedqamer 2008-05-17 14:33
this is very very rarely
8)
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+2 #5 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — suniltiw 2008-05-17 15:29
awesome :-)
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0 #6 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — ushaganguly 2008-05-17 17:13
amazing
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+1 #7 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — pr_kumar81 2008-05-20 21:52
hoooooooooooooo oooo
woooow
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+1 #8 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — kvc276 2008-05-22 12:17
Its really ammmmmmazing...
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+3 #9 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — rapchickraja 2008-05-22 23:06
The pics are simply superb !!!
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+1 #10 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — rapchickraja 2008-05-22 23:07
And the effort to do so... I think is enormous and commendable...
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+1 #11 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — rapchickraja 2008-05-22 23:08
I think that is why the saying came "Rocket Science" to describe some thing which is really tough to understand / do
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+1 #12 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — anand_nikte 2008-05-27 13:50
Nice one
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+1 #13 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — ironrebel 2008-05-31 08:40
:D THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME!!
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+1 #14 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — apashchim 2008-09-19 20:40
jabardast
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0 #15 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — millisun 2008-10-24 11:22
:-) :-) :-) :-)
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+1 #16 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — weblover 2008-11-18 16:07
:P :sigh: :-x :-? :roll: :D
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0 #17 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — dul 2008-12-29 11:01
WOW!!!!!!!!
Amazing :-) :-)
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+2 #18 Rarely seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities. — dhanaraj 2008-12-29 12:30
Fabulous. Thank you.
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-1 #19 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — sunil410 2008-12-29 16:19
Good one. Job wel done Priya
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0 #20 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — jigneshgadhia 2008-12-29 22:03
that's one of the best space pics on net!!
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0 #21 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — hvpurs 2008-12-30 15:53
Structures of gigantic proportions and the pictures are wonderful.

thanks Priya for the post.

HVP Urs
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-2 #22 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — satish5233 2008-12-30 20:31
hai
:D 8)
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0 #23 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — satish5233 2008-12-30 20:31
it is very nice
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0 #24 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — p.jaisakthivel 2008-12-31 20:33
hai, its very nice priya
:-) :-) :-)
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0 #25 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — r.thibodeaux 2009-01-02 07:28
AWESOME !!!! :eek:
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-1 #26 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — heartyguy77 2009-01-04 16:12
Hummmm
stunning
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+1 #27 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — snj0112 2009-01-04 19:25
the stunning pictures of the workmanship bows respectfully

i and my all family members feel as we all are watching the moments

really stunning
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+1 #28 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — raokalepu 2009-08-23 11:29
It is amazing and really a great
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+2 #29 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — tmanoharantr 2009-08-23 14:21
Good collections and may create little ideas of what is space shuttle, how it can be used and reused (we are yet to achieve reusing a launcher) and what is space etc. My opinion that anyone may view the kind of subject with nil knowledge about will get ideas. Thank you.
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+1 #30 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — strangerdracula 2009-08-23 15:10
Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities :D :-?
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+1 #31 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — shatiksha 2009-08-24 23:13
wow awesome dude! realy realy wonderful
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+1 #32 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — gmistry 2009-11-07 13:35
:-)
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+1 #33 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — BRadhakrishnan 2009-11-19 10:46
Really Superb and fantastic shots :-)
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+1 #34 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — luckyuppu 2010-02-20 17:27
really a good collection :zzz
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+2 #35 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — rden 2010-02-25 14:32
UP UP AND AWAY!!!!!
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+1 #36 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — divihavan 2010-04-06 15:15
very nice. I am very eager to find some more informative things about space. :zzz :zzz :zzz :zzz
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+1 #37 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — pujee 2010-07-25 12:48
:-) :-) gr8
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+1 #38 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — FEMI ELIZABETH JACOB 2010-07-26 12:42
it is so informatively thank you for this :-) ;-) 8) :-| mail
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+1 #39 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Pankaj Kumar Gupta 2010-07-26 14:30
Unbelivable pictures.
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+1 #40 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Pankaj Kumar Gupta 2010-07-26 14:32
Amazing & unbelivable Pictures.Thanks for it.
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+1 #41 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Mustee 2010-07-26 17:04
WOw...Awesome pics...well job...very knowledgeable..keep it up and snd more email like same in future..
tc
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+1 #42 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — kvr888 2010-07-26 19:51
its stunning pictures. and really rarely. congrats and keep it up. :roll:
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+1 #43 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — reds 2010-07-26 20:25
These are really great collection and are rare too. kudos for educating all of us
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+2 #44 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — PallePrasanth 2010-07-28 09:09
Thank you for sending mail
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+1 #45 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Arun.VP 2010-07-28 10:56
this is verry intresting,
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0 #46 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Arun.VP 2010-07-28 10:58
Real images it is usefull of next genration
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0 #47 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — sanjayp 2010-07-28 23:24
everybody involve into this deserve salutes
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0 #48 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — fawadhussain 2010-07-29 13:12
Really Aamazing pics,
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0 #49 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — cibi 2010-07-31 17:05
simply superb.it will be very proud to working in the field of aeronautics :D :zzz :roll:
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0 #50 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — V.K.Ganesh 2010-08-09 08:52
Realy Aamazing pics, Thanks for sending mail :roll: :o
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+1 #51 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — fakhroo 2010-08-11 19:59
:-) it's ammazing photography :-)
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-1 #52 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — fakhroo 2010-08-11 20:01
goooooooooooooo oooodphotograph y '''some thing knolagebl
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0 #53 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — kiran dasadiya 2010-09-06 23:26
very nice photo's it's amazing
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0 #54 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Kukadia Nikunj A. 2011-03-04 09:22
It's amazing........wht a photo...thank to upload this type of photos
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0 #55 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Hemanthkumar HB 2011-07-05 12:20
Its very nice pic.....i like it its use full...
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0 #56 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — rishitha 2011-07-05 13:30
:-x :P :zzz :roll:
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0 #57 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — AFZAL MADNI 2011-07-05 13:32
its very nice.thanks
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0 #58 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Qamardeen 2011-07-05 17:35
Amazing
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0 #59 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Harish C. Suthar 2011-07-09 13:17
its amazing technology , great pictures
hats off to NASA, thanks a lot pl. load
images of space journey if available.and
any such en devours. thanks again.
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0 #60 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Sankar Mukherjee 2011-07-09 20:46
The photographs of the rarely seen Space Shuttle pre-flight activities are quite informative and also enable me to get some knowledge about the same. Thanks Priya for your contribution.
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0 #61 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — srikanth 2011-07-11 15:44
too good, very informative :)
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0 #62 Rarely Seen Space Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities — Abdur Razzaq 2011-07-13 20:10
Great
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