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Artemis III core roll out

Today NASA moved the core stage of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket that will launch the crewed Artemis III mission in 2027 from the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility to the agency’s Pegasus barge in New Orleans. #artemisiii #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Artemis III is being built

Artemis III is beginning with the Solid Rocket Boosters in the VAB. #artemisiii #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

905 taking Discovery for a ride

Here is NASA 905 747SCA with Orbiter Discovery OV-103 on top preparing to take off from KSC in 2012. #747sca #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Egress Baskets

Here is the first of four emergency egress baskets on the mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at KSC being tested in Jan 2026. The baskets, similar to gondolas on ski lifts, are used in the case of a pad abort emergency to enable astronauts and other pad personnel a way to quickly escape away from the mobile launcher to the base of the pad and where waiting emergency transport vehicles would then drive them away. #artemisii #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

New Glenn lift off

On Nov. 13 2025 Blue Origin’s New Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. #newglenn #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Saturn I launch (1963)

On March 28th 1963 a Saturn I (SA-4) lifted off from Kennedy Space Center launch Complex 34. The typical height of a Block I vehicle was approximately 163 feet and had only one live stage. It consisted of eight tanks, each 70 inches in diameter, clustered around a central tank, 105 inches in diameter. Four of the external tanks were fuel tanks for the RP-1 (kerosene) fuel. The other four, spaced alternately with the fuel tanks, were liquid oxygen tanks as was the large center

Shuttle Testing

Testing of the Space Shuttle landing gear system, visible between the two main landing gear components on this NASA CV-990, modified as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft. The Space Shuttle landing gear test unit, operated by a high-pressure hydraulic system, allowed engineers to assess and document the performance of space shuttle main and nose landing gear systems, tires and wheel assemblies, plus braking and nose wheel steering performance. #convair990 #spaceshuttle #nasa

Close up

Here is close up top down view of Orbiter Endeavour OV-105 seen from ISS during STS-111 in 2010. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

NASA Convair 990

Check out the Convair 990 Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), in flight over NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB for a test of the space shuttle landing gear system. The space shuttle landing gear test unit, operated by a high-pressure hydraulic system, allowed engineers to assess and document the performance of space shuttle main and nose landing gear systems, tires and wheel assemblies, plus braking and nose wheel steering performance. The series of 155