Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public
NASA’s Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the orbiter, a winged spaceplane which is the space shuttle in the narrow sense.
Space Shuttle launching is a huge and complicated process. Have you ever wonder how is the preparation works of a space shuttle launching ? Here’s a pictorial description of the preparation process by NASA:
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