Shuttle launch facility diagrams

 drawings, spacecraft
May 102009
 

Nothing terribly exciting, but I thought these might be of interest to some…

pad.gif
access.gif  arms.gif  et-access-platforms.gif  et-processing.gif  mlp.gif  srb-orbiter-access-platforms.gif

 Posted by at 10:58 am

  3 Responses to “Shuttle launch facility diagrams”

  1. Triton says:
    May 11, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    That’s really cool. Thank you for sharing these drawings. The launchpad and supporting infrastructure is very important to manned spaceflight and is too often ignored.

  2. BP Spaceflightengineer says:
    June 21, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    The image of the ET facility is of the SLC ET storage facility (now used for odds and ends to support Delta IV. In 2002 I was working with a support contractor setting up the entire pad audio and video- and had to go into the ex-ET bldg. Interestingly I found a drawings drawer- maybe 20 drawers tall- completely filled with shuttle facility blueprints in there. This stuff was basically dust covered and slowly rotting.

    BP

  3. admin says:
    June 21, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    > Interestingly I found a drawings drawer- maybe 20 drawers tall- completely filled with shuttle facility blueprints in there. This stuff was basically dust covered and slowly rotting.

    I hope you rescured them…

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