Project Constellation Continues Taking Over Pad 39B

This photo collection shows the work that is being done to convert NASA’s Launch Complex 39B from a Shuttle pad to the future launch site of NASA’s Ares I-X rocket.

(Above) The slings from a large crane swing the detached orbiter access arm, which ends in the White Room, away from the fixed service structure, or FSS, on Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The White Room provided entry into space shuttles that were on the pad. The arm is being removed from the FSS for the pad’s conversion as launch site for the Constellation Program’s Ares I-X. The launch of the Ares I-X flight test is targeted for August 2009.