You are on top of the Fixed Service Structure, 300 feet above the bottom of the Flame Trench at Space Shuttle Launch Complex 39-B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on the boom of the Hammerhead Crane, which projects outward to the east of the main body of the FSS. - ThreadSky

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doralives.bsky.social • 23 days ago

You are on top of the Fixed Service Structure, 300 feet above the bottom of the Flame Trench at Space Shuttle Launch Complex 39-B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on the boom of the Hammerhead Crane, which projects outward to the east of the main body of the FSS.

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doralives.bsky.social•23 days ago

You are looking down the length of the web of one of the two 40-foot-long W24x104's which make up the main body of the GOX Arm Hinges Support Strongback.

doralives.bsky.social•23 days ago

The Strongback is in suspension, held up by the yellow crane which you see a small part of, including the operator through his cab window, far beneath you sitting on the Pad Deck at the bottom end of a black boom which is almost 250 feet tall.

doralives.bsky.social•23 days ago

High-summer midday shadows in Florida point nearly straight down beneath that which is casting them on elements of the world below.

In the top right corner of the frame, the East Side Flame Deflector appears as a gray rectangle above the fifty-foot-high darkness of the East Flame Trench Wall.

doralives.bsky.social•23 days ago

Immediately below the Deflector, the pale steel of the North Piping Bridge spans the Flame Trench, casting its latticework shadow on the refractory bricks that line its bottom surface.

doralives.bsky.social•23 days ago

In the bottom right of the frame, the softer latticework shadow of the Hammerhead Crane, much farther above, which you are standing on, extends across the Crawlerway surface of the Pad Deck, to and beyond the invisible five-story precipice of the West Wall of the Flame Trench.

doralives.bsky.social•23 days ago

The Trench Wall is betrayed only by the very slight offset in the shadow, near the right margin of the frame.

Your own shadow is in-frame, but unseeable, dwarfed into invisibility by the imagination-beggaring scale of that which you are a part of.

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