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Transportation of coated mirrors on air-ride truck

February - December 1996

The coated mirrors were transported by an air-ride truck to Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York, where they were assembled into a support structure and precisely aligned. From New York the telescope system was put aboard a C5 military transport aircraft, flown to Huntsville, Alabama, and delivered to the Marshall Space Flight Center. (See Telescope System and J. Johnston & B. Hahn Interview for more detail.)

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