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    Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) (previously known as the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building) is a historic building on Merritt Island...
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    Japanese Experiment Module and its robotic arm Adjacent to the Space Station Processing Facility, the Operations and Checkout Building's spacecraft workshop...
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    Building for stacking NASA's largest rockets, the Launch Control Center, which conducts space launches at KSC, the Operations and Checkout Building,...
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    Operations and Checkout Building to the launch pad before a mission and for launch dress rehearsals, and back to the Operations and Checkout Building...
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    spacecraft in the Operations and Checkout Building altitude (vacuum) chamber on October 18 and 19, 1966, and the backup crew of Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham...
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    Center to take astronauts directly from the orbiter to the Operations and Checkout building, where the vehicle was again lifted up for the astronauts to...
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    and Checkout Building. Originally built for Project Apollo. The Astrovan was used to transport astronauts from the crew quarters in the Operations and Checkout...
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    designated A and B, were completed in October 1965. The LOC also included an Operations and Checkout Building (OCB) to which Gemini and Apollo spacecraft...
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  • Armstrong Test Facility, in Erie County, Ohio Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, on Merritt Island, Florida Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering...
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    Space Systems Processing Facility (category Buildings and structures in Merritt Island, Florida)
    the internationally manufactured modules and station elements. However the Operations and Checkout Building (which was originally to be the prime factory...
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    to 320 × 56,000 km to prevent impact with Mars and possible contamination until the year 2019. Operations were terminated on August 17, 1980, after 1,485...
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    quarantine at the Operations and Checkout Building, where they conducted a dry dress rehearsal, adjusted their sleep schedules, and rehearsed flight procedures...
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    The CSM was mated on January 29, and moved from the Operations and Checkout Building to the Vehicle Assembly Building on April 14. The S-IVB third stage...
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    Earthrise (category William Anders)
    environmental photograph ever taken". Earthrise was taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission, the first crewed voyage to orbit the Moon....
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    Mission Operations Team. He originally planned to give the award to NASA administrator Thomas O. Paine, but Paine recommended the mission operations team...
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    The administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the highest-ranking official of NASA, the national space agency of the United...
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    The Vehicle Assembly Building (originally the Vertical Assembly Building), or VAB, is a large building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida...
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    size class as an SUV, and shares around 30 percent of its content with the Model S, half of the originally planned 60 percent, and weighs about 10 percent...
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    Civil Aviation, specializing in Flight Operation of Aircraft. In 2012, he graduated with an engineering degree and received the military rank of Lieutenant...
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    Astrovan transported astronauts from the crew quarters in the Operations and Checkout Building to the launch pad on launch day. The NASA Railroad comprised...
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    Facilities and geographic features of Kennedy Space Center 4km 2.5miles 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1     The Shuttle...
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    events" and for the following eight months NASA carefully analyzed the situation, running Earth-based theoretical and practical simulations, and finally...
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    prior to encapsulation, December 2013, in the Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) EFT-1 Orion Weight and Center of Gravity Test, June 2014 EFT-1 Orion...
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  • agency was building up to the first Moon landing and the Apollo program was a top national priority, consuming more than half of NASA's budget and driving...
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    Telescope, the four Great Observatories, and associated programs. The Launch Services Program oversees launch operations for its uncrewed launches. NASA traces...
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    altitude chamber inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at KSC. Rocket stacking operations began on November 20, 2024, when the left...
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    and transported to the Operations and Checkout Building. On February 1, 1990, LDEF was transported in the LDEF Assembly and Transportation System to...
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    "NASA Langley Research Center, Full-Scale Wind Tunnel, 224 Hunting Avenue (Building No. 643)", 27 photos, 2 measured drawings, 36 data pages, 4 photo caption...
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    orbit, Fisher performed the checkout of the RMS. Like many astronauts, she felt the effects of space adaptation syndrome and did not feel better until the...
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    Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building before Demo-2 launch. ISS and Demo 2 crews after hatch opening Robert Behnken, and Douglas Hurley are...
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