Lightning Towers Rise at LC-39B
March 4, 2009
Using a gigantic crane and other smaller ones, workers built and raised three lightning towers around Launch Pad 39B to protect the Ares I rocket from errant bolts of electricity. credit: NASA
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Space, Spaceflight, Space exploration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, electricity, Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle, Ares I, Lightning, Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Human spaceflight, Project Constellation, Space Shuttle program, Apollo program