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The U.S. Lab Destiny moves away from Atlantis payload bay doors into the Payload Changeout Room.

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Washington, DC, United States

The U.S. Lab Destiny (left) moves away from Atlantis’ payload bay doors (right) into the Payload Changeout Room. Destiny will remain in the PCR while Atlantis rolls back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to allow workers to conduct inspections, continuity checks and X-ray analysis on the 36 solid rocket booster cables located inside each booster’s system tunnel. An extensive evaluation of NASA’s SRB cable inventory revealed conductor damage in four (of about 200) cables on the shelf. Shuttle managers decided to prove the integrity of the system tunnel cables already on Atlantis

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  • Title: The U.S. Lab Destiny moves away from Atlantis payload bay doors into the Payload Changeout Room.
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL
  • Owner: KSC
  • Album: cbabir
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