kids encyclopedia robot

Image: P5 Truss segment prepared for launch on STS-116

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Original image(3,000 × 1,993 pixels, file size: 431 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description: KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility, an overhead crane moves the P5 truss for mission STS-116 to the payload canister. The truss will be transported to Launch Pad 39B where it will wait for installation in Space Shuttle Discovery’s payload bay. The third port truss segment, the P5 will be attached to the P3/P4 truss on the International Space Station during the 11-day mission. The window for launch of mission STS-116 opens Dec. 7.
Title: P5 Truss segment prepared for launch on STS-116
Credit: http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=30373
Author: NASA/George Shelton
Permission: No copyright protection is asserted for this photograph. If a recognizable person appears in this photograph, use for commercial purposes may infringe a right of privacy or publicity. It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA employees of a commercial product, process or service, or used in any other manner that might mislead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising and other commercial promotion, layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No

The following page links to this image:

kids search engine