Lunar Boom Town/Terran Spaceport

Spacecraft components arrive via jumbo cargo aircraft, barge, rail, or super trucks.

Flightline Operations

An AN-124 Jumbo Air Freighter arriving.

AN-124 front view.

AN-124 Unloading

Space Shuttle landing. Mission Complete.

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Vertical Rocket Launch

Redstone Launch Assembly under Construction

Titan 4B Core with two SRMU(Solid Rocket Motor Upgrades) in preparation for Cassini launch.

Atlas with Horizon spacecraft poised at KSC Pad 41.

• New Nasa Orion Stack

Horizontal Takeoff to Space

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L1011 Carrier Loading a Pegasus space launcher.

Capsule Return

• Apollo
• Soyuz

Russian Soyuz

• Ablative heat shields

Vertical Powered Return

• Scaled Engineering Prototype

Lifting Body Return

• Space Shuttle