At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers prepare to lift a solid rocket motor into the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41. It then will be attached to the United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster stage, already at the pad.
At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, workers prepare to lift a solid rocket motor into the Vertical Integration Facility at Launch Complex 41. It then will be attached to the United Launch Alliance Atlas V booster stage, already at the pad.
Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
June 15, 2011