A shuttle on the launch pad measures 184 feet (56 meters) tall from the tip of the external tank down to the aft skirts of its twin solid rocket boosters.

从外部燃料箱的顶端至船尾固体火箭助推器的裙摆，发射台上的航天飞机高184英尺(56米)。

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The slender, 100 metre-high rocket was moved in a delicate, slow operation from its 52-storey assembly hangar at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida this morning to a launch pad about four miles away.

今天上午，这个细长的100米高的火箭从位于佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心52层高的组装库被缓慢而巧妙地运到4英里外的发射平台。

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Not since 1975, when a Saturn IB rocket launched an Apollo capsule to meet a Soyuz spacecraft from the Soviet Union, has a non-shuttle rocket sat atop a NASA launch pad.

自1975年“土星1b”火箭发射了与苏联的联盟号对接的阿波罗太空船以来，非航天飞机用的火箭第一次出现在美国国家航空航天局的发射台上。

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The terrain below the rocket is only a few kilometers away from the launch pad, the institute said.

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