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Atlas of Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
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Launch of the Mercury-Atlas
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Launch of the Mercury-Atlas 5 |
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View of the lift-off of Mercury-Atlas 5 carrying space chimp "Enos" on November 29, 1961 from Kennedy Space Center. |
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1962-11-29 |
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STS-45 ATLAS-1 pallet and Ig
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STS-45 ATLAS-1 pallet and Igloo power unit mating in KSC O and C Bldg |
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STS-45 Atlantis, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 104, Atmosphere Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS) 1 pallet and Igloo power unit mating completed in Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Operations and Checkout (O and C) Bldg test stand 3. View provided by KSC with alternate number KSC-91PC-1704. |
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1992-02-10 |
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ATDA atop Atlas launch vehic
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ATDA atop Atlas launch vehicle launched from Kennedy Space Center |
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An Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) atop an Atlas launch vehicle is launched from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 14 at 10 a.m., June 1, 1966. The ATDA is a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 9-A space mission. |
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1966-06-01 |
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Agena Target Vehicle atop At
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Agena Target Vehicle atop Atlas Launch vehicle launched from KSC |
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An Agena Target Vehicle atop its Atlas Launch vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 14 at 10:15 am.m., May 17, 1966. The Agena was intended as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 9 spacecraft. However, since the Agena failed to achieve orbit, the Gemini 9 mission was postponed. |
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1966-05-17 |
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Agena Target Docking Vehicle
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Agena Target Docking Vehicle during prelaunch preparations at Complex 14 |
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An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 14 at 3:39 p.m., July 19, 1966. The Agena will be a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 10 space flight. |
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1966-07-18 |
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Launch of Agena Target Docki
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Launch of Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop Atlas launch vehicle |
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An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched fromt the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 14 at 6:05 a.m., September 12, 1966. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 11 spacecraft. |
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1966-09-12 |
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Agena Target Docking Vehicle
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Agena Target Docking Vehicle launched from KSC |
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An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 14 at 2:08 p.m., November 11, 1966. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 12 spacecraft. |
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1966-11-11 |
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STS-56 ATLAS-2 pallet is low
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STS-56 ATLAS-2 pallet is lowered into OV-103's payload bay at KSC's OPF HB-3 |
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STS-56 Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science 2 (ATLAS-2) unpressurized spacelab pallet and the mission peculiar support structure (MPESS)-mounted Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy 201 (SPARTAN-201) are lowered into the payload bay (PLB) of Discovery, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 103, at the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC's) Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) High Bay 3 (HB-3) during preflight integration. Clean-suited technicians monitor the progress and operation of the overhead crane from which the ATLAS-2 pallet/SPARTAN MPESS are suspended. ATLAS-2 equipment and instruments include: the igloo (cylindrical tank - front and center), the inverters and pump package (far right), port conical scan sensor (next to pump package at far right), the millimeter-wave atmospheric sounder (MAS) antenna (pallet center, just above igloo), the starboard conical scan sensor (small cylinder at far left), and the atmospheric trace module spectroscopy (ATMOS) (box behind conical se |
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1993-04-05 |
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