Launch shed

For sub-orbital launches, the Wallops Flight Facility sends rockets aloft from three sheds like this one. They have roll-up doors so that motors and other elements of a rocket, including the payload, can be brought in from either end. Then, instead of moving the rocket, the shed is moved away on rails and the rocket is raised and launched.

June 25, 2010 4:00 AM PDT

Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET

| Caption by: Daniel Terdiman

 

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