PUNCH Satellites Lift to Work Stand fo Testing Operations 🧑‍🚀

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⏩ 19 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=19&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250124010604

#Atlas #rockets, from the original SM-65 up to the Atlas II AS used three #engines on #launch, the outer two of which would be jettisoned about two minutes into the flight, leaving the center “sustainer” engine burning.

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The Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex had a replica of #NASA’s Space Shuttle for visitors to tour to better understand the #SpaceShuttle.
After it was announced that the #Atlantis #Orbiter would go to #KSCVC, the model, then called #Explorer, was put on a barge and sailed to Houston for #JSC to display.
It was vandalized shortly after because JSC didn’t take care of it.

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While the privately-funded #Atlantis #Museum was being designed, it was decided to have a life-size replica set of Space Shuttle Solid #Rocket Boosters and External Tank in front of the museum facade.
After entering the museum, from under or around the massive #SRBs, guests are treated to a view of the replicas and the rest of the Visitors Complex as they walk up to see the introductory film.

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The early #Atlas #rocket was not painted, except for a few markings like the words, “United States,” as on this example in the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex’s #Rocket Garden.

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A #Saturn IB #rocket on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Complex.
The #SaturnIB helped test the Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit.
The rocket also carried the Apollo spacecraft to the Skylab space station and to meet a Soviet Soyuz for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
The eight red nozzles are the 8 H-1 #engines that powered the rocket.

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After #NASA’s #Space #Shuttle was retired, the #Orbiter #Atlantis was given to the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex after it was cleaned and prepared for public display.
#KSCVC decided to, using private-raised money, build a new, multi-level museum to hold Atlantis suspended as though it were in orbit.

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When #NASA’s Space Shuttle #Orbiters were being assigned to #museums, the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex proposed to build a privately-funded museum to house #Atlantis and other space artifacts.
#KSCVC built a life-size replica of the External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters outside their #AtlantisMuseum.

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