Vehicle Assembly Building (it's ginormous)
Inside the VAB
Stack 5 ready for testing
125 tons? that's it?
At the parachute reconditioning facility. The parachutes hang on racks that move along these tracks. This is an interchange (like a railroad).
Shuttle parachute
Never seen a stamper this big
Each mission has the children of the astronaut's draw a poster. This one was the best. It was for the mission with a new toilet for the space station.
for Justin
Japan's window module for the ISS
The Crawler: transports the shuttle (with pad) to the launch site. Weighs something like 6,000,000 pounds!
Each tread link weighs a ton. Literally.
For Woody. Check out the pipes!
Clamps to hold launch pad.
Oil reserves.
Engine room
Doors to shuttle processing buildings. Note the extra slit for the tail.
Inside shuttle processing
Shuttle Discovery
Pretty stoked
Jeff trying to act nonchalant. He's totally chalant.
Inside of doors
Scaffolding moves around on tracks
Underneath Shuttle Discovery!
Shuttle nose
Tile diagram
Launch pad
Shuttle docked at other pad in background
dork.
Atop the launch tower,
VAB from a distance
I never seem to run out of dumb poses.
Jeff demonstrating why Monkey Claw always beats Monk's Fist. Kung Fu!
Flame pits
Escape baskets
Yeah right. Looks kinda fun though, huh?
Those two gravel roads on right are tracks for the crawler.
Tour ended just in time
High Bay 3. Platforms for stack access.
Inside Mobile Launch Platform
Couple hundred feet down
Testing Stack 5
Huge grasshoppers after it rained
ARES 1-X Stack 5 Modal Test
