NASA Photo ID: S87-33954           File Name: 10063506.jpg
  Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 05/14/87
  Title: Hubble Space Telescope (HST) shipping container test operations at KSC
  Description:
  Ground crews look on as a crane lifts the 11,500 pound aluminum cap from 
  the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) shipping container in front of the
  Multiuse  Mission Support Equipment (MMSE) Building at the Kennedy Space
  Center (KSC).   KSC workers continue to test and checkout the container
  which will be used to  transport the 43 foot long, 14 foot diameter
  telescope from Lockheed in  Sunnyvale, California to KSC next year.  The
  telescope is scheduled for  launch aboard the space shuttle in November
  1988.  View provided by KSC  with alternate KSC number KSC-87PC-502.              
  
  Subject terms:
  CONTAINERS                              
  CRANES                                  
  FLORIDA                                 
  HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE                  
  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
  PERSONNEL                               
  PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    
  STS-31                                  
  TRANSPORT VEHICLES                      
  

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