kennedy space center facilities new employee orientation training klass
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Kennedy Space Center FacilitiesNew Employee Orientation Training
KLASS
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NASA’s Mission
NASA's mission is to pioneer future space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.
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Today’s Objectives
• Become familiar with background of the Space Shuttle Program
• Become familiar with KSC: operation centers and instrumentation
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Overview
• NASA Centers
• KSC Facilities
• General Shuttle Overview
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NASA Centers & Facilities
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KSC Facilities
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Why Kennedy Space Center?
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Center Director's Welcome
Kennedy Space Center Director William Parsons
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KSC Facilities
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A Rich History
Dr. Werner Von Braun explains the Saturn rocket system to President
John F. Kennedy at Launch Complex 37 in November 1963.
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KSC Visitor Complex
Click image to view the interactive map
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External Tank (ET)
Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)
Orbiter (Endeavour)
All together = Shuttle
STS=Space Transportation System
General Shuttle Overview
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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
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VAB and LCC
Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB)
Launch Control Center (LCC)
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Orbiter Processing Facility
Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF)
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Inside OPF
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Fixed Service Structure
Water Storage Tank
Hydrogen/Oxygen Storage
Rotating Service Structure
(Retracted)
Launch Complex 39 A and B
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Orbiter Weather Protection
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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
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-- 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)
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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 -
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Terminology/Acronyms
Challenger
Columbia
Discovery
AtlantisEndeavour
OV-099 -
OV-102 -
OV-103 -
OV-104 -
OV-105 -
Orbiter Weather ProtectionOWP -Rotating Service StructureRSS -
EnterpriseOV-100 -