At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the space shuttle mock-up, dubbed Pathfinder, enters the Vehicle Assembly Building for a fit-check. The mock-up, constructed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., possessed the general dimensions, weight and balance of a real space shuttle.
At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the space shuttle mock-up, dubbed Pathfinder, enters the Vehicle Assembly Building for a fit-check. The mock-up, constructed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., possessed the general dimensions, weight and balance of a real space shuttle.
Image credit: NASA
May 15, 1978