July 1 Tour

[Caley]

Here's some pictures from a tour Kim and I gave to a couple of fellow other co-ops on July 1. Thanks Jonathon for the pictures.

We started out in the SSPF.

Here's the Japanese Experiment Module, Kibo (Japanese for Hope)




And the group in front of Kibo
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/JEM Group Shot.jpg[/img]

Here's Node 2, which will connect the JEM to the rest of the station

web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/Node 2.jpg [/img]
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/Node 2 Again.jpg [/img]
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/Node 2 Interior.jpg [/img]

Here are two of the Multi-Purpose Logistics Modules (MPLM),
Leonardo
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/MPLM Leonardo.jpg [/img]
and Raffello
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/MPLM Raffello.jpg [/img]
Along with the machine that puts racks into them
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/MPLM Rack Mover.jpg [/img]

Here are some Solar Array canisters
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web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/Solar Arrays 2.jpg [/img]

Along with the S6 Truss
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/Truss S6.jpg [/img]
and its Long Spacer


After touring the Highbay, we went up to an observation window.
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/SSPF Highbay1.jpg [/img]
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/SSPF Highbay2.jpg [/img]

Then we headed over to the Shuttle side.

Here's the group in front of the VAB
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/VAB Group Shot.jpg [/img]

Then I went in and took some interior shots of the VAB
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/VAB 1.jpg[/img]

Here are various stacking stages of the SRBs
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web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/SRB2.jpg [/img]
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/SRB3.jpg [/img]

And where the Shuttles get stacked on the Crawlers when prepping for a launch.
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/VAB 2.jpg [/img]

Here is a Crawler outside
web.ics.purdue.edu/~burkeca/Summer2003/SSPF_Tour/Crawler_2.jpg [/img]

We went into the Launch Control Center.



And finally, we visited the Apollo 1 Pad