Tour the Plane Giving NASA’s ICON a Ride to Space
Early in the morning of Nov. 7, 2018, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a spacecraft that will explore the dynamic region where Earth meets space. ICON launches on a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, which is carried aloft by the Stargazer L-1011 aircraft.
Join NASA on a behind-the-scenes tour of this plane, once a jet airliner and now uniquely retrofitted to boost spacecraft into low-Earth orbit. Learn about ICON’s science and meet the people — including an engineer, technician, and pilot — who will help launch the spacecraft into orbit.
Learn more at: nasa.gov/icon
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Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Editor
- Joy Ng (KBRwyle)
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Host
- Karen Fox (ADNET)
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Talents
- Don Walter (Northrop Grumman)
- Edward Dunlap (Northrop Grumman)
- Jim Stowers (Northrop Grumman)
- Scott England (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley)
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Producers
- Kathalina Tran (SGT)
- Sarah Frazier (SGT)
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Videographers
- Francis Michaux (ASRC Federal Data Solutions)
- Glenn Benson (ASRC Federal Data Solutions)
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Support
- Amber Jean Watson (Abacus Technology Corporation)
- Michael Justice (ASRC Federal Data Solutions)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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