STS-133 ELC-4 Deck-to-keel mate

Autor/Urheber:

NASA/Jack Pfaller

Shortlink:

https://dewiki.de/b/24b34d

Quelle:

Wikimedia Commons

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians perform the Express Logistics Carrier-4, or ELC-4, deck-to-keel mate. The deck is about 14 by 16 feet and spans the width of a space shuttle’s payload bay. It is capable of providing astronauts aboard the International Space Station with a platform and infrastructure to deploy experiments in the vacuum of space without requiring a separate dedicated Earth-orbiting satellite. Space shuttle Discovery and its STS-133 crew will deliver the carrier along with critical spare parts to the station later this year.

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Public domain

Credit:

http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=48228

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