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Our home at the Kennedy Space Center was/is the Vertical
Processing
Facility (VPF). For
a 360 degree view of this clean room, click here
(need QuickTime
installed).
After the cooling system was retested at the VEST facility at Goddard,
it was shipped to Kennedy Space
Center, where we continued our integration at the VPF. On
January
22, the astronaut crew saw the
actual flight unit and operated the connectors.
Some members of the NCS team posing with the astronauts in front of
the radiator. From right to left: Jim Buchheit (radiator
designer),
Jim Newman (astronaut),
Richard Linnehan (astronaut), John Grunsveld (astronaut), Nancy Currie
(astronaut), Darrell Zimbelman (NCS Systems), Jill Slater (Quality
Assurance),
Rob Eppler (mechanical design), Ed Rezac (EVA), Mike Massimino
(astronaut),
yours truly (electrical). Note the ARUBA visible just over
Mike's
shoulder.
Here I am in front of the radiator and the ARUBA.
Shot at the VPF at the Kennedy Space Center on January 22, 2002.
Here is the ARUBA and Diode Box (left) in the final flight
configuration
(VPF).
Another shot of the final configuration (VPF).
After a few weeks of stay at the VPF, we transferred to the Canister
and then to the Shuttle.
Here the radiator has been mounted into the Orbiter and viewed from
the PCR. Note the end of
the Shuttle robot arm on the left, next to the column of numbers on
the PGHM structure.
For images of the Canister ride to the Pad, click
here.
On the second day in space (Flight Day 2, or FD-2), we do a photo
survey
of the Cargo Bay to check
and make sure all is well. This was captured by the port-side
aft bulkhead camera. The ARUBA is
shown here in space. The number in the upper right identifies
the image.
Another view, this time from the starboard camera. Is that
the
island of Aruba above the box of ARUBA?
Note the end of the robot arm and the port-side camera on the left
of the image.