CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- With the Vehicle Assembly Building in the background the Pegasus Barge is moored in a secure area of the Turn Basin in the Launch Complex 39 area at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The barge is 266 ft long and 50 ft wide and has been used by the Space Shuttle Program to transport external fuel tanks over 900 miles of inland and open ocean waterways from the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana to Kennedy. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann
Location Kennedy Space Center, FL
Date April 21, 2011