Shuttle Era: Orbiter Processing Facility

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Published 2013-05-13

Space shuttles came home to specialized hangars called orbiter processing facilities where workers cleaned them up and prepped them for their next mission.

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@Justin_Martin 3 years ago

Space shuttle Era is awesome 🇺🇸👑💕
@geomodelrailroader 7 years ago

Before any shuttle heads to space all work begins here the cavernous building known as Bay 3 it is in here that every shuttle is prepared for flight. When a shuttle lands it is towed in here and NASA Kennedy's Workforce gets to work they take the old payload out and send it over to the space station processing building and prepare the vehicle for its next flight. When the orbiter is ready the doors are closed and the clean room cells are removed. Under the Orbiter the KMAG transporter is secured to the attachment points which will mate it to the external tank then the Orbiter is moved next door to the Vehicle Assembly Building where is assembled into the rocket that will take it into space.