Aries 5 Launch Support Tower

The newly built launch support tower and mobile launch platform, intended for use with the Aries rockets. How many people can you see on and in the tower?

As we watched the Atlantis rollout the newly built Aries launch support tower loomed behind us. This tower was similar to ones that had previously been used to service the 111 metre tall Saturn 5 rockets during the Apollo lunar and Skylab space station programmes.

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