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Falcon Heavy Demonstration Mission Booster Display |
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex 19 February 2018 |
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| The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex displayed one of the Falcon Heavy Test Flight boosters that had previously flown on CRS-9 on 18 July 2016 having launched and landed on two SpaceX missions. The booster was laid out horizontally on its transporter in front of the Atlantis exhibit with the full-size mockup of the Space Shuttle's External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters towering overhead. | |
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Detail of a grid fin. |
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Detail of a grid fin. |
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Detail of a grid fin. |
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Note the landing legs have been removed leaving clean white spaces contrasting with the sooty and charred areas from launch, entry, and landing. |
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The "Octaweb" of nine Merlin engines. |
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Detail of the Merlin engines. |
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Detail of the Merlin engines. |
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Detail of the Merlin engines. |
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Detail of the Merlin engines. |
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The view driving away. |
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