#France will provide EUR 195 million worth of weapons to #Ukraine - Defence Minister #Sebastien_Lecornu.

The package will include 155mm artillery shells, #AASM aerial bombs used by #Mirage5_2000 fighter jets, as well as #AMX_10RC light tanks and #VAB armoured personnel carriers. The deal will be paid for with interest from frozen #Russian assets.

Thank you, #France!

Source: https://www.latribune.fr/la-tribune-dimanche/politique/sebastien-lecornu-ministre-des-armees-nous-ne-sommes-pas-en-guerre-nous-voulons-garantir-la-paix-1020145.html

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

#NASA:
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Artemis II Rocket Booster Stacking Complete
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"Engineers at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida completed stacking the twin SLS (Space Launch System) solid rocket boosters .. inside the Vehicle Assembly Building for the agency’s Artemis II crewed test flight around the Moon."

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/artemis-ii-rocket-booster-stacking-complete/

20.2.2025

A detail shot of the #NASA logo painted on the Vehicle Assembly Building. This version is commonly referred to as “The Meatball.” An alternative #logo NASA used for a few years, which was just “NASA” in a distinctive and flowing font, was called “The Worm” since it resembled an inchworm’s movement.
Fights over which logo is superior have ended in tragedy multiple times.
The Meatball on the VAB is 10 stories tall.

#Meatball #NASAMeatball #TheMeatball #VehicleAssemblyBuilding #VAB #NASALogo #VAB

#MeatballRules -

En sån dag
#VAB #Jamtli

BoeingSpaceがNASAのVABを通過するStarlinerの写真を投稿。VABはSaturn VロケットやSpace Shuttleの組立場所であり、今はArtemisミッションのためにSpace Launch Systemの組立場所となっている。
https://x.com/BoeingSpace/status/1780164803480203599

#NASA #BoeingSpace #VAB #Starliner

#France will deliver hundreds of #VAB armored vehicles to #Ukraine️
#UkraineRussiaWar️️ #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.armyrecognition.com/ukraine_-_russia_conflict_war_2022/france_will_deliver_hundreds_of_vab_armored_vehicles_to_ukraine.html

#bot #miltodon
Original tweet: https://nitter.weiler.rocks/ArmyRecognition/status/1775096947503718683

The #launch of #SpaceX’s #CRS1 #Dragon cargo #spacecraft atop a #Falcon 9 #rocket to the ISS, as seen from atop the Vehicle Assembly Building (#VAB) at Kennedy Space Center.

A Floridian Sunset
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/a-floridian-sunset/

NASAの写真家が、フロリダのケネディ宇宙センターのVABで夕日を捉えました。VABは1966年に完成し、ArtemisミッションのためにNASAのSpace Launch Systemロケットの組み立てに使用されています。

VABは高さ525フィートで、室内には1億3000万立方フィートのスペースがあります。また、アメリカの国旗が描かれており、数々の栄誉を受けています。 #NASA #宇宙センター #VAB

25% off #sale on wall #Art like #posters and #Canvas #Prints:
When #NASA’s #Space #Shuttles were being retired, the #Orbiters had to spend time waiting for an open Orbiter Processing Facility in the Vehicle Assembly Building (#VAB).
#Photographers were allowed to go up to a higher level in the building to allow them to get shots like this, with Atlantis’ starboard wing painted with its name and the US flag.

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#SpaceShuttleAtlantis, #SpaceShuttle, #VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #Photograph

25% off #sale on wall #Art like #posters and #Canvas #Prints:
An early-morning #photograph of #NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, originally designed to stack the Saturn V rocket, then converted to use for the Space Shuttle and now the Space Launch System.
The gray doors granting access to the exterior from the High Bays were rockets can be stacked are the largest doors in the world.
The US #flag painted on the side has stripes the width of a road lane.
The smaller, closer, white #building is the Launch Control Center, which controls launches from #KSC.

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#KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #VAB, #LaunchControlCenter, #LCC, #Photography

25% off #Sale on wall #Art like #Posters and #Canvas #Prints.

#SpaceShuttle #Orbiter #Atlantis is backed into the tall #VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building). It will wait there, missing its #RCS (#ReactionControlSystem) and #OMS (#OrbitalManeuveringSystem)
which are being decontaminated at #WhiteSands #Space Harbor from the toxic #MMH monomethylhydrazine /N2O4 that had filled its tanks for so long.
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#NASA, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #Photography

When #NASA’s #Space #Shuttles were being retired, the #Orbiters had to spend time waiting for an open Orbiter Processing Facility in the Vehicle Assembly Building (#VAB).
#Photographers were allowed to go up to a higher level in the building to allow them to get shots like this, with Atlantis’ starboard wing painted with its name and the US flag.

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#SpaceShuttleAtlantis, #SpaceShuttle, #VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #Photograph

An early-morning #photograph of #NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, originally designed to stack the Saturn V rocket, then converted to use for the Space Shuttle and now the Space Launch System.
The gray doors granting access to the exterior from the High Bays were rockets can be stacked are the largest doors in the world.
The US #flag painted on the side has stripes the width of a road lane.
The smaller, closer, white #building is the Launch Control Center, which controls launches from #KSC.

Get a print or other merchandise with this image at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/vehicle-assembly-building-at-kennedy-space-center-heron-and-fox.html

#KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #VAB, #LaunchControlCenter, #LCC, #Photography

The port side of #Space #Shuttle #Orbiter #Discovery, viewed from above.
After #NASA’s #SpaceShuttle was #retired, it refit them for museums to display.
In this shot, #SpaceShuttleDiscovery is waiting in the Vehicle Assembly Building to be flown to the Smithsonian.

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#VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #VAB, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #SpaceShuttleWing

After #NASA’s #Space #Shuttle Program was discontinued, the #Orbiters were given to museums, but they first required some modification, including removing the main engines and thruster systems.
The engines are being reused on SLS #rockets, while the thrusters, which used a toxic fuel, needed before it was safe for the public.
In this image, Shuttle #Atlantis is being moved into the Vehicle Assembly Building to wait for its turn to be refitted.

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#KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #SpaceShuttle, #VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #VAB, #Photography

#NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (#VAB) at Kennedy Space Center (#KSC).
The Saturn V and Space #Shuttle were integrated here before being rolled of the world’s largest #doors on an enormous tracked Crawler-Transporter to launchpad.
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#KennedySpaceCenter, #VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #SpaceShuttle, #Photograph,

A view looking up at #NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, #Florida. The “Low Bay” is in the foreground, and the High Bays, needed to assemble the Saturn V, and where the Shuttle and SLS were stacked.
The Low Bay was used in the Apollo-era for the S-IVB.
#VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #VAB, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC.
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/looking-up-at-the-vab-heron-and-fox.html

Inside #NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center are five #cranes, two of which are rated for 325 tons intended to help assemble the #Space Shuttle.
Originally the V in #VAB stood for “Vertical” because that was where the Saturn V was stacked vertically before rolling out to LC-39, but this didn’t apply as well to the #SpaceShuttle, which was side-mounted, so the V was reassigned.
Now the VAB will be used for the stacking of SLS #rockets.
#VehicleAssemblyBuilding, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #Photograph, #Photography, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/325-ton-crane-in-the-vab-heron-and-fox.html