Space Mission Preparations

Images depicting transportation and unloading of spacecraft components at Air Force and NASA facilities, with trucks and forklifts in a work setting.

Maxwell Air Force Base serves as the Incident Staging Base for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in preparation for Hurricane Ian, Sept. 26, 2022. Food, water and supplies have been staged at Maxwell AFB in recovery efforts for when Hurricane Ian makes landfall.
Maxwell Air Force Base serves as the Incident Staging Base for the Federal Emergency Management Agency in preparation for Hurricane Ian, Sept. 26, 2022. Food, water and supplies have been staged at Maxwell AFB in recovery efforts for when Hurricane Ian makes landfall.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- With the transporter in place inside Hangar M on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the suspended Delta II first stage can be placed on it. The Delta will be moved to the launch pad. Dawn's mission is to explore two of the asteroid belt's most intriguing and dissimilar occupants: asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. Dawn is scheduled to launch June 30 from Launch Complex 17-B.
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At Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a United Launch Alliance Centaur upper stage is transported to Space Launch Complex 3 for mating atop an Atlas V booster. The rocket will launch NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, or InSight, mission to land on Mars. InSight is the first mission to explore the Red Planet's deep interior. It will investigate processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system including Earth. Liftoff is scheduled for May 5, 2018.
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - NASAs Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mated to Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket, rolls out of Orbitals processing hangar headed for the “hot pad,” located on the ramp adjacent to the runway on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. At the hot pad, the rocket will be attached beneath Orbitals L-1011 carrier aircraft.The duo will be flown from Vandenberg to the U.S. Army's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pegasus and its NuSTAR payload will be launched June 13 from the carrier aircraft 117 nautical miles south of Kwajalein at latitude 6.75 degrees north of the equator. The high-energy X-ray telescope will conduct a census of black holes, map radioactive material in young supernovae remnants, and study the origins of cosmic rays and the extreme physics around collapsed stars.
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The 124th Civil Engineer Squadron prepares Gowen Field for flight operations Jan. 7, 2023, in Boise, Idaho. CES Airmen monitor weather reports throughout the week and report to the base when inclement weather is slated to affect flight operations and installation work.
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Prepositioned.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Fayetteville, N. C. , September 3, 2010 FEMA generators are staged for rapid deployment to support emergency facilities and public buildings if needed. FEMA is one part of a team supporting North Carolina's preparations for and response to Hurricane Earl. David Fine / FEMA. North Carolina Hurricane Earl. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Debris Contractors at Work.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District oversees debris removal operations in Mayfield, Kentucky, Jan. 4, 2022.
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Producers Livestock Auction, San Angelo, Texas
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Preparations are underway to move NASA's mobile launcher, atop crawler-transporter 2, into High Bay 3 at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) on Sept. 8, 2018, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mobile launcher departed Launch Pad 39B after several days of testing with the pad. This is the first time that the modified mobile launcher made the trip to the pad and the VAB. The mobile launcher will spend seven months in the VAB undergoing testing. The 380-foot-tall structure is equipped with the crew access arm and several umbilicals that will provide power, environmental control, pneumatics, communication and electrical connections to the agency's Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft. Exploration Ground Systems is preparing the ground systems necessary to launch SLS and Orion on Exploration Mission-1, missions to the Moon and on to Mars.
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Parts for NASAs Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) arrive in a shipping container at Building 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. CYGNSS is being prepared at Vandenberg, and then will be transported to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket which will be attached to the Orbital ATK L-1011 carrier aircraft. CYNSS will launch on the Pegasus XL rocket from the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. CYGNSS will make frequent and accurate measurements of ocean surface winds throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. The data that CYGNSS provides will enable scientists to probe key air-sea interaction processes that take place near the core of storms, which are rapidly changing and play a critical role in the beginning and intensification of hurricanes.
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SOIL UNLOAD FOR THE SIMULATED PLANETARY BODY FIELD IN THE WEST TEST AREA. AREA TO BE USED FOR TESTING OF THE MIGHTY EAGLE LANDER
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A flatbed truck with the Orion crew access arm secured atop arrives in a storage location at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The access arm was transported from Precision Fabricating and Cleaning in Cocoa, Florida. Later this month, the arm will be transported to the mobile launcher (ML) tower at the center. The crew access arm will be located at about the 274-foot level on the tower. It will rotate from its retracted position and interface with the Orion crew hatch location to provide entry to the Orion crew module. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is overseeing installation of umbilicals and launch accessories on the ML tower.
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clean up and set up continues. Mississippi Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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The Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) left-hand forward skirt for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters is transported by truck to the Booster Fabrication Facility (BFF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida from Hangar AE at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. In the BFF, the forward skirt will be inspected and prepared for use on the left-hand solid rocket booster for EM-1. NASA's Orion spacecraft will fly atop the SLS rocket on its first uncrewed flight test.
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Work in 637 Intendance Central Workshop in Woerden. An employee loads a pallet crate in a truck with a forklift truck.
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - Preparations are underway to transport the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission, or OCO-2, from the Horizontal Processing Facility to the mobile service tower at Space Launch Complex 2 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.Launch is scheduled for July 1, 2014. The observatory will collect precise global measurements of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere and provide scientists with a better idea of the chemical compound's impacts on climate change. Scientists will analyze this data to improve our understanding of the natural processes and human activities that regulate the abundance and distribution of this important atmospheric gas.
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Portuguese national employees of the North American Van Company, Praia team up with members of the Contractor Cargo Company, USA, to assist moving the Next Generation Radar (DOPLER) transmitter/receiver trailer up to Santa Barbara Ridge for installation at the NEXRAD installation site with a front end loader. The site is about 20 miles from Lajes Field. Base: Terceira Island Country: Azores (AZR)
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Ocean County, N.J., Nov. 20, 2012 Temporary Housing Units, provided by FEMA, are placed in a staging area where preparations are made for utilization by families that were displaced because of Hurricane Sandy. FEMA is working with local, state and other federal partners to help families with temporary housing after the storm. New Jersey Hurricane Sandy. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Railroad depot, a boxcar train wagon and a heap of discarded metal pins, track spikes.
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Forklift truck with cargo container
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The Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL vehicle is transported from Building 1555 to the hot pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on Oct. 14, 2018. NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) is secured inside the rocket's payload fairing. The Pegasus XL rocket will be attached beneath the company's L-1011 Stargazer aircraft, and travel to the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ICON will launch aboard the Pegasus XL rocket on Oct. 26, 2018, from the Skid Strip at the Cape. ICON will study the frontier of space - the dynamic zone high in Earth's atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above. The explorer will help determine the physics of Earth's space environment and pave the way for mitigating its effects on our technology, communications systems and society.
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Hazard, Kentucky, July 30, 2022 - National US&R response system pods have arrived at the Hazard Area Command Center containing necessary equipment for emergency response. Robert Kaufmann/FEMA
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International Eagle big rig tractor warehouse
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U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. James Bishop and Staff Sgt. Dustin Hart, 202nd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Engineers (RED HORSE) heavy equipment operators, load a skid-steer onto a trailer ahead of Hurricane Ian response efforts at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Starke, Florida, Sept. 26, 2022. Nearly 40 202nd RED HORSE Airmen will mobilize to hurricane-affected areas to remove roadway debris as part of disaster response efforts.
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Temporary Housing unit in NY. New York Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Moving a prefabricated wooden frame House, Reykjavik, Iceland
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A plethora of ground support equipment for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, is delivered to the Astrotech Payload Processing Facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.SMAP will launch on a Delta II 7320 configuration vehicle featuring a United Launch Alliance first stage booster powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-27A main engine and three Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, strap-on solid rocket motors. Once on station in Earth orbit, SMAP will provide global measurements of soil moisture and its freeze/thaw state. These measurements will be used to enhance understanding of processes that link the water, energy and carbon cycles, and to extend the capabilities of weather and climate prediction models. SMAP data also will be used to quantify net carbon flux in boreal landscapes and to develop improved flood prediction and drought monitoring capabilities. Launch from Space Launch Complex 2 is targeted for Jan. 29, 2015.
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A861433 U12N MIDDLE NOTE RACK DELIVERY ALLEN (Project Engineer) NOV 13 86 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 11/13/1986 ALLEN, JOHN; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; FORKLIFTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; LIFTING; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); MIDDLE NOTE; N-TUNNEL; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; RACK DELIVERY; RACKS; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; U12N; U12N MIDDLE NOTE; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; UNLOADING; VEHICLES, SPECIAL USE; WEAPONS TECHNOLOGY; YELLOW (COLOR) historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - START Contractors - 26-HK-393-57. Hurricane Katrina
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Flooding Mudslide/Landslide Severe Storm - Taylorville, W. Va. , June 25, 2009 FEMA and contractor supervisors watch as one of the final homes is placed in the first community site opened to help survivors of the Mother's Day flooding. Louis Sohn FEMA. West Virginia Severe Storms, Flooding, Mudslides, and Landslides. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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A scene of Equipment Park is shown with fall colors Oct. 3, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Equipment Park is inside the installations historic Commemorative Area. The Equipment Park is an outdoor display of historic and present-day equipment representative of the types used on the installation. The design of the park allows for display of 70 pieces of equipment, ranging from helicopters and howitzers to trucks and trailers. The Commemorative Area also consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoys unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942.
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Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Fayetteville, N. C. , August 26, 2011 FEMA tractor trailers containing bottled water, generators and other emergency supplies wait to be admitted to the Incident Support Base at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. FEMA is staging equipment and emergency supplies in anticipation of Hurricane Irene on the coast of North Carolina. David Fine / FEMA. North Carolina Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Albany, GA, September 9, 2008 Staging area where commodities are being gathered in preparation for Hurricane Ike. Albany, GA--September 9, 2008--Staging area where commodities are being gathered in preparation for Hurricane Ike.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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A forklift carries the crated Mars Odyssey spacecraft from the Air Force C-17 cargo airplane that brought it from Denver, Colo.., location of the Lockheed Martin plant where the spacecraft was built. The crate will placed on a transport trailer to take it from KSCs Shuttle Landing Facility to the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility 2 (SAEF-2) located in the KSC Industrial Area. In the SAEF it will undergo final assembly and checkout. This includes installation of two of the three science instruments, integration of the three-panel solar array, and a spacecraft functional test. It will be fueled and then mated to an upper stage booster, the final activities before going to the launch pad. Launch is planned for April 7, 2001 the first day of a 21-day planetary window. Mars Odyssey will be inserted into an interplanetary trajectory by a Boeing Delta II launch vehicle from Pad A at Complex 17 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The spacecraft will arrive at Mars on Oc
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Mixing truck at construction site
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Flooding Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Lawrenceville, N. J. , September 9, 2011 A tractor trailer provides slag and crushed aggregate for levee reinforcement along the D&R Canal (Delaware & Raritan Rivers) in Stockton, New Jersey. The D&R Canal was severely compromised by flooding caused by Hurricane Irene on August 28, 2011. FEMA partners with the state and local governments to insure coordination of disaster response activities and effective communication among all stakeholders. New Jersey Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Northern Ireland, Bushmills. The Old Bushmills Distillery.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers team members with the Operation Blue Roof program unload FEMA trailers and load contractor trailers with plastic sheeting that will be installed on the roofs of homeowners in the coming days, Venice, FL, October 12, 2022. The Corps of Engineers is ramping up blue roof installation production across southwest Florida, to get residents the help the need to protect their homes and get them back on the road to recovery.
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Structures continue to go up at the 801st Red Horse Training Squadron to support the Silver Flag firefighting mission, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, Sept. 16, 2022. The new structures will provide Air Force firefighters a new training facility, a vehicle maintenance shop and an area for equipment storage that the training squadron has not had since Hurricane Michael in 2018.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A truck sprays water on the gravel crawler way at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida as crawler-transporter No. 2 moves out of high bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. With crawler-transporter modifications complete, the test drive is designed to check out modifications to ensure its ability to carry launch vehicles such as the space agency's Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket to the launch pad.NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations Program is leading the 20-year life-extension project for the crawler. A pair of behemoth machines called crawler-transporters has carried the load of taking rockets and spacecraft to the launch pad for more than 40 years at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each the size of a baseball infield and powered by locomotive and large electrical power generator engines, the crawler-transporters will stand ready to keep up the work for the next generation of launch vehicles projects to lift astronauts into spac
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Mexico, Mexico City, PEMEX (Petroleos de Mexico) tanker filling up tanks at gas station.
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Sabine Refinery - 26-HK-258-5. Hurricane Katrina
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SLS ENGINE SECTION PEDESTALS AND THE ENGINE SECTION SPIDER QUADRANTS ARRIVAL AND UNLOADING AT NASA DOCK ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER.
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Highway road construction in Idaho.
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U.S. Coast Guard members from Marine Safety Detachment Lake Worth, Florida conduct a pre-storm port assessment at the Port of Palm Beach in preparation for Hurricane Ian, Sept. 27, 2022. The Coast Guard from South Carolina to the Florida Keys and Caribbean are urging mariners to secure their vessels and paddlecraft, stay informed and follow local evacuation orders, and use VHF Ch. 16 or 911 for emergency assistance.(U.S. Coast Guard video by Lt. Andrew Cole)
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Production line of meals for Rouen hospitals, France.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A truck with a 1-megawatt generator drives past NASA Kennedy Space Centers Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. Stennis suffered damage and power outages from Hurricane Katrina. KSC is sending a helicopter with medical supplies and an Emergency Medical Technician to Stennis, plus a 1-megawatt generator, 125- and 225-kilowatt generators, and 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans was also left without power. A NASA plane is carrying medical supplies, food and chain saws, as well as a physician and two high voltage technicians to Michoud to ensure the facility can safely receive power when the main electricity grid comes online. In addition, a 14-person security team is also going to Michoud to relieve the security professionals at that location.
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Atlanta, Ga. , November 17, 2010 Through a federal partnership between FEMA and the General Services Administration (GSA), FEMA opens a new distribution center in Atlanta with complete equipment repair, maintenance and storage facilities for specialized field equipment. This facility is one of nine distribution points around the United States to quickly and efficiently support disaster survivors with food, water and emergency supplies. David Fine/FEMA.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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2016 ROVER CHALLENGE EVENTS AT THE U.S. SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER IN HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COME TOGETHER TO TEST THEIR ENGINEERING SKILLS OVER A SIMULATED OUTER PLANET OBSTACLE COURSE.