The platform was then modified for use with the space shuttle and supported 33 more launches, including the first docking of a U.S. orbiter to Russia's space station Mir in 1995, the first mission ...

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida ... The Shuttle is on top of the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) and is then moved by the Crawler Transporter (CT) to one of the two launch ...

The setup is similar to the slidewire baskets used on the space shuttle program and at SpaceX's launch pad. Once the SLS mobile launch platform arrives at the launch pad this week, technicians ...

On Florida's Space Coast, the number of orbital launches has skyrocketed to annual records of 31 in 2021, 57 in 2022, 72 in ...

“We’ve got the last hardware—the last external tank—so it’s the only place in the world you’ll be able to see a full space shuttle stack in launch position,” Rudolph says. To ...

A Crawler Transporter moves out from underneath the Mobile Launch Platform after bringing Space Shuttle Discovery to the launch pad prior to a 2001 launch. NASA Both the mobile launch platforms ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the early 1980s. The shuttle was what a rocket could never be: A flying aircraft with a human pilot. The insulting phrase for ...

Kicking off a sky-lighting launch ... to provide a platform for experiments that can be returned to Earth for analysis. The Boeing-built X-37B looks a bit like a miniature space shuttle, complete ...

The full-stack launch position of Endeavour is rare; no other space shuttle is displayed in such ... it came within 20 feet of the second-level platform. The move was delayed by winds, but crews ...