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Events
| Auto Show 02 |
| STS-112 |
| VAB Tour |
| OPF Tour |
| ISS Tour |
| A rare glimpse of the inside of an
Orbiter Processing Facility |
These
photographs were recorded by me during a VIP tour before the launch of
STS-112. Photo Credits: Mine |
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| Two of the Orbiter Processing Facility buildings at KSC | |
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| The reception area of OPF-3 | A huge American flag flown in space on STS-42 |
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| Technicians replacing tiles on the nose section of Discovery | |
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| Discovery is nestled inside of the orbiter processing structure | |
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| Technicians working on Discovery's airlock | I'm near the back of Discovery's starboard wing |
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| Technicians inspect a leading edge RCC cap from Discovery's wing | |
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| Discovery's body flap obscured by structure | |
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| Discovery starboard landing gear | |
| One of the stops on our VIP tour of the Kennedy Space Center
facilities was one of the Orbiter Processing Facility buildings.
There are three of these buildings at KSC and we toured OPF-3. At
the time of our tour space shuttle Discovery was being refurbished in
OPF-3. |