NASA / Jim Grossmann
Discovery poses with an old friend... On display with space shuttle Discovery inside the Vehicle Assembly Building right now is the Astrovan. Between 1984 and 2011, the Astrovan transported 252 astronauts from their crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to a flight-ready Discovery sitting out on her pad at KSC's Launch Complex (LC)-39. There's no reason to think that NASA won't continue tradition and have future crew members use this historic land vehicle for their minutes-long road trip to a Space Launch System rocket waiting out on its pad at LC-39...or even a commercially-made vehicle like SpaceX's Falcon 9 that would welcome the astronauts and their venerable transport at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida. It's exciting to ponder about where future crew members riding in the Astrovan will be headed once they soar off into space.
NASA / Jim Grossmann
NASA / Jim Grossmann
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