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Construction of Crew Access Tower Starts at Atlas V Pad for Boeing ‘Starliner’ Taxi to ISS
The first tier of seven tiers for Crew Access Tower is moved from its construction yard to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sept 9, 2015. The tower will provide access at the pad for astronauts and ground support teams to the Boeing CST-100 Starliner launching atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Photo credit: NASA/Dmitrios Gerondidakis
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Restoring America’s human path back to space from US soil kicks into high gear at last as construction starts for the new crew access tower on the Atlas V launch pad that will propel Americans astronauts riding aboard the commercially developed Boeing CST-100 ‘Starliner’ taxi to the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS).
The last hurdle to begin stacking the crew access tower at the United Launch Alliance Atlas V complex-41 launch pad on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida was cleared with the magnificent predawn blastoff of the U.S. Navy’s MUOS-4 communications satellite on Sept. 2 – following a two day weather delay due to Tropical Storm Erika.
The new 200-foot-tall “tower structure goes up rather quickly at launch pad 41,” Howard Biegler, ULA’s Human Launch Services Lead, told Universe Today during an exclusive interview.(…)
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Post tags: Atlas V rocket, Boeing, Boeing CST 100 Starliner, C3PF, cape canaveral, CCP, Crew Access Tower, Crew Dragon, CST-100, KSC, NASA, pad 41, SLC-41, SpaceX, Starliner, ULA
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