Spacecraft Component Handling

Images depict various rocket and shuttle components being inspected, transported, and lifted at space facilities, showcasing engineering processes in an industrial setting.

Wind Generator Blades on a cargo ship.
Wind Generator Blades on a cargo ship.
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Tipper truck used in work of asphalting. Road construction.. Dumper truck is loaded with asphalt milled from cold planer machine. Road construction.
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ORION Project-(SPLASH) Structural Passive Landing Attenuation for Survivability of Human Crew (BTA) Boiler Plate Test Article Water Impact Test-Pot Phase"0" Test Tested at the Hydro Impact Basin at the Landing and Impact Research Facility (Gantry)
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Methaniser in Picardy, Saint-Leu-d'Esserent, Hauts-de-France, France.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency Contracted Generators Prepar. American Samoa Earthquake, Tsunami, and Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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Canada,Ontario,Carp,Diefenbunker, Canada's Cold War Museum,atom bomb and blast tunnel
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Workers use a cutting torch to dismantle a water tower in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The effort is part of on-going efforts to upgrade and revitalize Kennedy's water and sewer systems to increase their reliability, sustainability and capabilities into the 21st century for current and future users.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers begin to offload a section of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, from an Air Force C-5M aircraft. A tractor-trailer will transport the AMS from the Shuttle Landing Facility runway to the Space Station Processing Facility, where it will be processed for launch.AMS, a state-of-the-art particle physics detector, is designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for dark matter. AMS will fly to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission, targeted to launch Feb. 26, 2011.
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machine cutting a marble block
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Sawmill. Close-up of log and worker on background Close-up of log and worker controls machine on background ,model released, Symbolfoto Copyright: xZoonar.com/AndreyxGuryanovx 14386719 ,model released, Symbolfoto ,property released
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Collection of the Dutch Heidematschappij. NPC, pipelines, charging tubes, trailers. 1965
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Maintenance and Logistics Commands Atlantic - Property Inventory Team - Station New Orleans - 26-HK-192-92. Hurricane Katrina
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Ocean Concrete yard on Granville Island, Harvest Series painted ready-mix delivery trucks. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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NTS A88 1027 09-20-88 SANDIA NATIONAL LABS U12P DISKO ELM FAC MOVE TO "P" TUNNEL STALLER (Project Engineer) Publication Date: 9/20/1988 CRANES; CRANES, LIFTING (INDUSTRIAL); DISKO ELM; DOLLIES; EXPLOSIVES; FAC MOVE; FAC MOVE TO P-TUNNEL; LIFTING; MALE; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; NUCLEAR TESTS; SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES; STALLER, GEORGE; TEST SITES; TRAILERS, MOTOR DRAWN; TUNNELS; U12P; U12P DISKO ELM; UGT; UNDERGROUND; UNDERGROUND TESTING; UNLOADING; WEAPONS EFFECTS; 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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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Nov. 1, 2012) The Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota (SSN 783) is under construction at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding.
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Dock workers loading rice at John Fernandes transshipment port in Georgetown, Guyana, South America
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A booster rocket arrives at Launch Complex 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. It is one of nine solid rocket boosters being erected and mated to the Delta II rocket for launch of the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. The second stage will later be hoisted atop the first stage. SIRTF will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space. Most of this infrared radiation is blocked by the Earth's atmosphere and cannot be observed from the ground. Consisting of an 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically cooled science instruments, SIRTF is one of NASA's largest infrared telescopes to be launched. SIRTF is scheduled for launch April 15 at 4:34:07 a.m. EDT.
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MOJAVE DESERT, Calif. - In the Mojave Desert in California, students and engineers assist as the Garvey Spacecraft Corporation's Prospector P-18D rocket is lifted into position for its scheduled launch on June 15 with the RUBICS-1 payload on a high-altitude, suborbital flight. The rocket will carry four satellites made from four-inch cube sections.Collectively known as CubeSats, the satellites will record shock, vibrations and heat inside the rocket. They will not be released during the test flight, but the results will be used to prove or strengthen their designs before they are carried into orbit in 2014 on a much larger rocket. A new, lightweight carrier is also being tested for use on future missions to deploy the small spacecraft. The flight also is being watched closely as a model for trying out new or off-the-shelf technologies quickly before putting them in the pipeline for use on NASA's largest launchers. Built by several different organizations, including a university, a
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Methaniser in Picardy, Saint-Leu-d'Esserent, Hauts-de-France, France.
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A bi-sector half of the payload fairing for a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is lifted upright for its move into the mobile service tower on Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Preparations are underway for launch of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft in 2017. JPSS-1 is part of the next-generation environmental satellite system, a collaborative program between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA.
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Wind turbine assembly
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France, Brittany, September 2020. Illustration of daily life in Brittany. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Bretagne, Septembre 2020. Illustration de vie quotidienne en Bretagne. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ground support equipment technicians monitor the progress as a crane is used to lift a new jacking, equalizing and leveling, or JEL, hydraulic cylinder for installation on crawler-transporter 1 at the crawler transporter maintenance facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. New JEL hydraulic cylinders will be installed on CT-1 to test them for increased load carrying capacity and reliability. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at Kennedy continues to upgrade CT-1 as part of its general maintenance. CT-1 could be available to carry a variety of launch vehicles to the launch pad. Two crawler-transporters were used to carry the mobile launcher platform and space shuttle to Launch Complex 39 for space shuttle launches for 30 years.
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Rotor blades for offshore wind turbines, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Cuxhaven plant, Altenbruch, Cuxhaven, Germany, Europe
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wreck buoys, Marine navigation equipment storage maintenance yard, Trinity House, Harwich, UK
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At the Shuttle Landing Facility, workers in cherry pickers (right) help guide offloading of the Italian Space Agencys Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Donatello from the Airbus “Beluga” air cargo plane that brought it from the factory of Alenia Aerospazio in Turin, Italy. The third of three for the International Space Station, the module will be transported to the Space Station Processing Facility for processing. Among the activities for the payload test team are integrated electrical tests with other Station elements in the SSPF, leak tests, electrical and software compatibility tests with the Space Shuttle (using the Cargo Integrated Test equipment) and an Interface Verification Test once the module is installed in the Space Shuttles payload bay at the launch pad. The most significant mechanical task to be performed on Donatello in the SSPF is the installation and outfitting of the racks for carrying the various experiments and cargo
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DF-ST-89-09185. Base: Iraklion Air Station Country: Greece (GRC)
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TWO CRANES LIFT THE APPROXIMATELY 8,000-POUND INTERIM CRYOGENIC PROPULSION STAGE TEST ARTICLE OUT OF ITS CRATE AT MARSHALL. THE TEST ARTICLE ARRIVED AT MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER VIA BARGE ON THE TENNESSEE RIVER AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO BUILDING 4649 WHERE TESTING WILL BEGIN.
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A giant tunnel boring machine of the specialist firm Herrenknecht, length 90 meters, bore diameter more than 10 meters, in front of the construction site of the second tube of the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel at the Ediger-Eller district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe
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First Stage Test of Ares I, Largest Rocket Motor In the World
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Ferry, Smiling worker in safety equipment on a ship in harbour, Morocco, Africa
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Voigtsdorf-Dorfchemnitz, wind farm on the Saidenberg. Preparation for on-site installation of new wind turbines
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Snow cannon, snow-made system, snow-making systems, snow producers, snow cannons ** Snow Cannon, Snow Cannons MCH-L68 Editorial Use Only
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Cutting the submarine and sea mines. Museum of the World ocean. Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg before 1946), Russia, Europe
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Engineers work on the emergency escape tower of the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft prior to it being mated to the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Saturday, May 25, 2013, in Kazakhstan. The launch of the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineers; Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Karen Nyberg of NASA, is scheduled for Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time. Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At Astrotech in Titusville, Fla., the Ares I-X forward skirt, wrapped in a protective cover, is lowered by crane onto a transporter. The segment will be transferred to the Assembly and Refurbishment Facility, or ARF, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The forward skirt is the initial piece of first-stage hardware in preparation for the July 2009 test flight of the agency's next-generation spacecraft and launch vehicle system. Built entirely of armored steel, the 14,000-pound segment is seven feet tall and 12-1/4 feet wide. United Space Alliance, under a subcontract to ATK, will complete the integration and assembly of the forward skirt components in the ARF. It will then be moved to the Vehicle Assembly Building high bay 3 for stacking operations.
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Galena, Alaska, June 12, 2014 FEMA logistics is underway moving millions of pounds of building supplies, and tools to inner Yukon villages by air cargo because there are no roads. After severe flooding in 2013 inundated the villages, FEMA continues to rebuild during the summer months, coordinating shipping of supplies, labor and resources. Adam DuBrowa/ FEMA. Alaska Flooding. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials
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A900775 U12P DISTANT ZENITH FAC DELIVERY GEORGE STALLER (Project Engineer) NOV 16 90 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 11/16/1990 DELIVERING; DISTANT ZENITH; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; FAC DELIVERY; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; MALE; MALES; MEN; MEN (ADD MALE MODIFIER); NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; P-TUNNEL; TEST SITES; TUNNELS; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING; WEAPONS EFFECTS 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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These images show the first core stage for NASAs Space Launch System rocket inside NASAs Pegasus barge on Jan. 8 ahead of its forthcoming journey to NASAs Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Teams rolled out, or moved, the completed core stage from NASAs Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the barge in preparation for the SLS rockets core stage Green Run test series at Stennis. Pegasus, which was modified to ferry SLS rocket hardware, will transport the core stage more than 40 miles from Michoud to Stennis for the comprehensive core stage Green Run test series. Green Run, named for its testing of new, or green, hardware progressively is the final test campaign ahead of the first Artemis launch.Assembly and integration of the core stage and its four RS-25 engines has been a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its partners Boeing, the core stage lead contractor, and Aerojet Rocketdyne, the RS-25 engines lead contractor. Together with four RS-25