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KSC-05pd-0622
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Space Shuttle Discovery, atop a Mobile Launcher Platform (MLP), crawls toward Launch Complex 39B. First motion out of the Vehicle Assembly Building occurred at 2:04 p.m. EDT. The rollout marks a major milestone in the Space Shuttle Program’s Return to Flight. The MLP is moved by the Crawler-Transporter underneath, which stands 20 feet high, 131 feet long and 114 feet wide. It moves on eight tracks, each containing 57 shoes, or cleats, weighing one ton each.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-0622. NASA/KSC, 2005-04-06. Public domain. ID: 05pd0622.
