 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
NASA continues its steady progress toward Return to Flight with a key milestone at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This photo shows the aft skirt and lower segment of a Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) moving through the doors of the facility's massive Vehicle Assembly Building. These segments will be prepared, then assembled with other segments arriving later, and will eventually help propel Discovery into orbit on the Return to Flight mission, STS-114, currently planned for May 2005. Returning the Shuttle fleet to safe flight and completing the International Space Station is the first step in the Vision for Space Exploration. The two 149-foot tall, 12-foot diameter SRBs provide the main propulsion system during the launch of the 180,000-pound orbiters. They operate along with the Space Shuttle Main Engines for the first two minutes of flight, then jettison away from the Shuttle to be recovered in the ocean and re-used later. Related Links NASA's Return to Flight SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Return To Flight Journal: Inside The Wing
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 15, 2004Returning the Space Shuttle to flight is so important to Lisa Campbell, she's willing to spend 10 hours a day crawling around on her hands and knees to help make it happen. Campbell is an aerospace technician with United Space Alliance at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. These days, she spends most of her time in a crawlspace deep inside the left wing of Space Shuttle Discovery, installing temperature sensors within the wing's leading edge. |
. |
|
