One of the three large steel platforms that supported the launch of NASA's Apollo and space shuttle missions is now being demolished — due to a lack of space. Fifty years ago this month, Mobile ...

The setup is similar to the slidewire baskets used on the space shuttle program and at SpaceX's launch pad. Once the SLS mobile launch platform arrives at the launch pad this week, technicians ...

All 135 Space Shuttle Launches happened from Florida ... The Shuttle is on top of the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) and is then moved by the Crawler Transporter (CT) to one of the two launch ...

NASA The Space Shuttle program was able to reuse the three Apollo-era MLs with some modifications. These reconfigured platforms with the towers removed were given new names—Mobile Launch ...

Now that the new mobile launch platform for NASA’s Space Launch System is progressing at high speed to start its operations, an LR1350S crane will soon be added to the equipment fleet.

On Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke ... The cameras monitoring the gantry and the mobile platform supporting the shuttle revealed that the plan to protect the plumbing on the ...