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KSC-04pd1029
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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In the Orbiter Processing Facility, a worker tightens a fitting on the device being used to remove the Rudder Speed Brake panel on the vertical tail of the orbiter Atlantis. The Rudder Speed Brake is being removed for inspection and maintenance prior to Return to Flight. The vertical tail consists of a structural fin surface made of aluminum, the Rudder Speed Brake surface, a tip and a lower trailing edge.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-04pd1029. NASA/KSC, 2004-05-04. Public domain. ID: KSC-04pd1029.