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Article: Key Space Station Hardware is Enroute to Kennedy Space Center.
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- PR Newswire
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- June 10, 1999
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A key element of what will become the backbone of the orbiting International Space Station is on its way today to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., aboard the Super Guppy transport aircraft.
The center truss segment (called "S Zero") was assembled by Boeing Reusable Space Systems inside a five-story-high clean room in Huntington Beach that covers an area about the size of a football field. Technicians wrapped the 44- by 15-foot structure in plastic before loading it into a shipping container for the 2,500 mile flight from Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center to Florida.
The segment is the centerpiece ...