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Rollout of Artemis II from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.
Date: January 17, 2026
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Rollout of Artemis II from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.
Date: January 17, 2026
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NASA Art Collection : Space shuttle art from the book “NASA and the Exploration of Space”
Striking view of STS-3 Columbia's rollout to Pad 39A.
Date: February 16, 1982
NASA ID: 108-KSC-82PC-191
"The early morning sun silhouettes STS-95 Space Shuttle Discovery, on the Mobile Launch Platform, at Launch Complex Pad 39B after a 6-hour, 4.2-mile trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building. At the launch pad, the orbiter, external tank and solid rocket boosters will undergo final preparations for the launch, scheduled to lift off Oct. 29. The mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process."
Date: September 21, 1998
NASA ID: KSC-98PC-1104
Crawler transporter during test with the 3 mobile launchers in background.
Date: May 4, 1966
NASA ID: 66-H-507
STS-41-D Discovery being rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).
Following the launch abort at T-6 on June 26, 1984, it was discovered there was a problem with SSME #3, which had some contamination in a hydraulic actuator, this in turn led to a temporary blockage of the engine’s hydrogen fuel valve. NASA decided to change out the complete engine on the pad. However, it was decided to combine the Discovery's first (STS-41-D) and second (STS-41-F) missions and payloads together to minimize satellite backlog after the PAM-D failures during STS-41-B. This required the Space Shuttle to be de-stacked from the ET and sent to the OPF. There workers installed additional support for the new payload. Discovery returned to the launch pad on August 9.
Date: July 14, 1984
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"Cathedral" by Sara Larkin.
STS-2 Columbia rolling out to the launch pad.
Date: August 31, 1981
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NASA ID: KSC-381-0708.06
NARA: 266695034
"The Crawler Transporter slowly retreats down the incline at Launch Pad 39B after depositing the Mobile Launcher Platform with the Space Shuttle Columbia. Columbia is undergoing final preparations for the STS-78 launch, targeted for June 20. The primary payload is the Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS). The seven-member crew are slated to spend at least 16 days in space."
Date: May 31, 2000
NASA ID: KSC-96PC-0742