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Thanks to the drought, these black-and-white beauties are struggling to catch worms in the rock-hard earth. But there’s still good foraging on well-watered fairways and greens Name: Badgers. Age: European badgers live for five to eight years in the wild.…
Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Key Features Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) Small – Large (456 ft H max) vertical rocket integration Able to withstand up to 125 mph winds Floor load capacity of 12 million lbs Cranes located throughout building Handling…
Hangar AE Control Center Hangar AE Control Center, located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) adjacent to KSC, is used by the Launch Services Program (LSP) and other customers as a communications center, receiving and monitoring telemetry data from launch vehicles…
Commercial launch Control Center Launch Control Center – Firing Room 4 KSC’s Launch Control Center, located next to the Vehicle Assembly Building, continues its 50-year legacy of supporting launches, with state-of-the-art systems available in four separate control rooms. External customers…
Ordnance Storage Facility (OSF) Kennedy Space center (KSC) is fully equipped to handle, store and transport live ordnance that is used in launch operations. The Ordnance Storage Facility (OSF) is located near the Vehicle Assembly Building and consists of an…
SCAPE Suits Cryogenic Supply System May Improve Mine Rescue Operations The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), BSC Life Support, LLC, and NASA’s Biomedical Lab are partnering under a Space Act Agreement for the development of cryogenic life…
Occupational Health KSC provides a comprehensive, integrated Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health Program for NASA, approved military personnel of United States Air Force (USAF), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Patrick Space Force Base (PSFB), contractors, visitors and tenants at…
Propellant Containers N2O4 Cylinder The one-ton N2O4 cylinder is constructed from 304 SS and has built-in valves and a dip tubes for loading and off-loading by pressurant gas. These cylinders are “standard issue” containers for Defense Energy Supply Center (DESC) at the…
Propellant Handling & Servicing The NASA Propellants and Life Support Branch (PLS) offers Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station customers one-stop access to over 22 liquid propellants, pressurants, chemicals, and special fluids. Each year PLS completes thousands…
The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was flown home to the Caribbean Sea after being found washed up in Wales.