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KSC-pa-et-5

NASA / KSC · 1998-02-06 · photograph (digital archive)

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The Space Shuttle's first super lightweight external tank is on its way to Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building for processing. The tank, which is scheduled for flight on STS-91 in late May, arrived Feb. 3 in Port Canaveral, where it remained until Feb. 6 due to high winds. The improved tank is 7,500 pounds lighter than its predecessors and was developed to increase the Shuttle payload capacity on International Space Station assembly flights.

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Credit lineKSC-pa-et-5. NASA/KSC, 1998-02-06. Public domain. ID: KSC-pa-et-5.

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