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Kennedy Space Center FacilitiesNew Employee Orientation Training
KLASS
NASA’s Mission
NASA's mission is to pioneer future space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.
Today’s Objectives
• Become familiar with background of the Space Shuttle Program
• Become familiar with KSC: operation centers and instrumentation
Overview
• NASA Centers
• KSC Facilities
• General Shuttle Overview
NASA Centers & Facilities
KSC Facilities
Why Kennedy Space Center?
Center Director's Welcome
Kennedy Space Center Director William Parsons
KSC Facilities
A Rich History
Dr. Werner Von Braun explains the Saturn rocket system to President
John F. Kennedy at Launch Complex 37 in November 1963.
KSC Visitor Complex
Click image to view the interactive map
External Tank (ET)
Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)
Orbiter (Endeavour)
All together = Shuttle
STS=Space Transportation System
General Shuttle Overview
OV-099, Challenger: 10
OV-102, Columbia: 28
OV-103, Discovery: 34
OV-104, Atlantis: 29
OV-105, Endeavour: 21
Total Flights: 122
OV = Orbiter Vehicle
Shuttle Flights 1981 - June, 2008
VAB and LCC
Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
Launch Control Center (LCC)
Orbiter Processing Facility
Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)
Inside OPF
Fixed Service Structure
Water Storage Tank
Hydrogen/Oxygen Storage
Rotating Service Structure
(Retracted)
Launch Complex 39 A and B
Orbiter Weather Protection
Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF)
A single landing strip--considered 2 runways
-- Runway 15 from northwest
-- Runway 33 from southeast
- 15,000 feet long
- 1,000 foot-paved overruns at each end
- 300 feet wide (length of football field)
- 50-foot asphalt shoulders each side
- 16” thick in the center, 15” thick on sides
- Slope of 24”, center line to edge, for drainage
-- Night Landings: Flatbed trailers hold eight Xenon lights, 4 on each end of runway
-- Each Xenon light produces 1 billion candlepower (candela)
-- Only turn on lights that will be behind crew when it lands
Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF)
Terminology/Acronyms
External TankKennedy Space CenterLaunch Control CenterOrbiter Processing FacilityShuttle Landing Facility
Space Transportation SystemVertical Assembly Building
ET -KSC -LCC -OPF -SLF -
STS -VAB -
Solid Rocket BoosterSRB -
Orbiting VehicleOV -
Terminology/Acronyms
Challenger
Columbia
Discovery
AtlantisEndeavour
OV-099 -
OV-102 -
OV-103 -
OV-104 -
OV-105 -
Orbiter Weather ProtectionOWP -Rotating Service StructureRSS -
EnterpriseOV-100 -