# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/0vIZZsGh52
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15348173-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-03-27T15:37:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

Operations are in full gear at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for Scott Kelly's year-long mission to the International Space Station, launching today at 3:42 p.m. eastern. While that is underway, we want to call attention to America's spaceport at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida -- specifically, to the crawler transporters that carry rockets and spacecraft to the pads before liftoff. 
During their 50 years of service, the crawlers have traveled a combined total of 5,000 miles. That is enough to travel from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to Johnson Space Center in
Houston, Texas and over to San Diego, California and still have some miles to spare. All of these locations are playing a key role in preparing NASA for our journey to Mars.

#nasa #journeytomars #crawler #history #spaceport #launch nasa nasakennedy nasajohnson nasa_marshall explorenasa iss stationcdrkelly #yearinspace

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history, nasa, crawler, launch, yearinspace, journeytomars, spaceport

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