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heng44
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posted 06-17-2016 01:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for heng44   Click Here to Email heng44     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

STS-47 pilot Curt Brown (left), mission specialist Jay Apt and commander Hoot Gibson pose for an informal portrait next to the space shuttle Endeavour at Launch Pad 39B during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test in August 1992. Pad 39A is visible at upper right.

Michael Davis
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posted 06-17-2016 04:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Michael Davis   Click Here to Email Michael Davis     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Three men leaning back against a guardrail a couple of hundred feet up. What could possibly go wrong?

Wehaveliftoff
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posted 06-18-2016 11:00 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Wehaveliftoff     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I get acrophobic just looking at it, scary. Talking about copying a Stairway to Heaven...

randy
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posted 06-18-2016 11:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for randy   Click Here to Email randy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The good ol' days.

Tom
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posted 06-18-2016 04:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tom   Click Here to Email Tom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Michael Davis:
Three men leaning back against a guardrail a couple of hundred feet up.
...and a photographer a few feet higher leaning forward over a railing!

capcom
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posted 06-19-2016 02:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for capcom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It is now strange that all this pad infrastructure as been scrapped and the shuttle on display. At least however they lasted longer that the Apollo structures.

onesmallstep
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posted 06-20-2016 08:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
No, not all is gone from Pads 39A and B yet. Pad 39A is being steadily modified by SpaceX to support Falcon Heavy and Crew Dragon launches; the fixed service structure (FSS) will mostly remain intact but the RSS (rotating service structure) will be gradually taken down. The FSS will also be used to support USAF/DoD launches from the pad.

Pad 39B will be used by NASA's new SLS (space launch system), and be available for commercial use when not launching Orion or other spacecraft.

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