NASA Photo ID: S89-25282 File Name: 10063252.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 01/10/89
Title: STS-30 Magellan spacecraft arrives at KSC after six-day journey from Colorado
Description:
The Payload Environmental Transportation System (PETS) (semi-truck and
trailer), which transported the Magellan spacecraft on its six-day journey
from Martin Marietta in Denver, Colorado, to Kennedy Space Center (KSC),
arrives safely at the Space Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2)
planetary checkout facility. The spacecraft, destined for unprecedented
studies of Venusian topographic features, is to be deployed by the crew of
NASA's STS-30 mission in April 1989. View provided by KSC with alternate
number KSC-88PC-1082.
Subject terms:
BUILDINGS
GROUND HANDLING
MAGELLAN SPACECRAFT (NASA)
PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS
STS-30
TRANSPORT VEHICLES
TRUCKS
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