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Mission Milestones
February 4, 1999
TRW in Redondo Beach, Calif., has shipped NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Cradled in the Space Cargo Transportation System which closely resembles the size and shape of the Shuttle cargo bay, Chandra was ferried to KSC aboard an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transporter. Over the next few months, the telescope will undergo final tests at KSC and be mated to a Boeing-provided Inertial Upper Stage for launch aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.
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