KSC-01PADIG-032

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- As the sun clears the horizon, it creates a silhouette of the Space Shuttle Atlantis as it makes the crawl from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A. The Shuttle has been in the VAB undergoing tests on the solid rocket booster cables. A prior extensive evaluation of NASA’s SRB cable inventory on the shelf revealed conductor damage in four (of about 200) cables. Shuttle managers decided to prove the integrity of the system tunnel cables already on Atlantis, causing return of the Shuttle to the VAB a week ago. Launch of Atlantis on STS-98 has been rescheduled to Feb. 7 at 6:11 p.m. EST

Date

2001-01-26

Photographer / author

NASA

Collection

KSC

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

photograph

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