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heng44 Member Posts: 3677 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001	posted 07-14-2023 07:25 AM The crawler transporter slowly moves the Mobile Launcher Platform, carrying a set of twin solid rocket boosters, away from the Vehicle Assembly Building in November 2003 in support of engineering analysis vibration tests on the crawler and MLP. Launch Pads 39A and 39B can be seen on either side of the boosters on the horizon
Axman Member Posts: 56 From: Derbyshire UK Registered: Mar 2023	posted 07-14-2023 07:32 AM I'm presuming they are space shuttle solid fuel boosters. Was this particular pair later mated to a shuttle and external tank and used in the space shuttle program, and if so do you know which flight it became?
Headshot Member Posts: 1224 From: Vancouver, WA, USA Registered: Feb 2012	posted 07-14-2023 10:36 AM Interesting image. There was a similar black and white picture in the 21 April 1986 issue of AW&ST. The crawler was relocating the launch platform and two SRBs from one bay in the VAB to another. Curiously, there was no spanning brace between the two boosters, near their nose cones, in the 1986 picture.

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