KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - After leaving NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building (in the background), external tank 120 approaches the Turn Basin and the waiting barge Pegasus (at right). The tank will be loaded onto the barge for transport to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana for additional modifications. This tank is the first of the newly designed tanks that were delivered to Kennedy. Previously, the tank was stacked with Discovery and, more recently, Atlantis. The tank has already gone through two tanking cycles during tanking tests but was replaced with tank #121 for Discovery’s return to flight mission STS-114.
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date October 13, 2005