KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - External tank #120 approaches the barge Pegasus, docked at the Turn Basin on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. When the tank is loaded onto the barge, it will be towed 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