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This was a good thing because the launch
was scheduled for 1:36am Tuesday morning. We followed NASA's
updates on Twitter during the drive and also when toured around the
space center. Everything was on schedule for a perfect night
launch. Tanking began at 4:11pm and the crew headed out to the
shuttle just before 10pm. While
all this was going on we started our tour of Kennedy. Of
course, our first stop needed to be the full scale model of an
orbiter and a set of actual solid rocket boosters with an external
fuel tank. Dubbed Space Shuttle Explorer (There have been 5
orbiter vehicles and one prototype, none named Explorer.), the model
gives you a good feel for the scale and the
components
of a shuttle. |
