Tail Service Mast

Space Shuttle Discovery in the Vehicle Assembly Building. On either side of Discovery’s tail and Orbiter Maneuvering System Pods are the Tail Masts that support the fluid, gas and electrical requirements of the orbiter’s liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen aft T-0 umbilicals. Photo Credit: NASA/KSC

My Best Mistake: Eugene Hajdaj’s “What Could Go Wrong?”

June 10, 2015 // by CKO News Staff

At Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Equipment Test Facility, I learned the hard way that supposedly bulletproof designs are not necessarily as trouble-free as they may appear.

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