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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, the external tank is transferred from the checkout cell for attaching to its twin solid rocket boosters on the mobile launch platform in highbay 3 for mission STS-116. The gigantic, rust-colored external tank is the largest element of the Space Shuttle system at 27.6-feet wide and 154-feet tall. STS-116 will be mission no. 20 to the International Space Station and construction flight 12A.1.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-06pd2286. NASA/KSC, 2006-10-12. Public domain. ID: KSC-06pd2286.
