< Lunar Boom Town

Spacecraft components arrive via jumbo cargo aircraft, barge, rail, or super trucks.

Flightline Operations

An AN-124 Jumbo Air Freighter arriving.
AN-124 front view.
AN-124 Unloading
Space Shuttle landing. Mission Complete.

Barge Cargo

Rail Cargo

Truck Cargo

Vertical Rocket Launch

Redstone Launch Assembly under Construction
Titan 4B Core with two SRMU(Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades) in preparation for Cassini launch.
Atlas with Horizon spacecraft poised at KSC Pad 41.
  • New Nasa Orion Stack

Horizontal Takeoff to Space

L1011 Carrier Loading a Pegasus space launcher.

Capsule Return

  • Apollo
  • Soyuz
Russian Soyuz
  • Ablative heat shields

Vertical Powered Return

  • Scaled Engineering Prototype

Lifting Body Return

  • Space Shuttle
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