Pegasus
1999
(Hydra HY-167)
- Type: NASA space shuttle external tank barge
- Displacement: 1,648 tons
- Dimensions: 260 x 50 x 15 ft.
- Machinery: unpowered
- Builder: Gulf Coast Fabricators Inc., Beaumont, Texas, 1999
- Service: Built to ferry NASA space shuttle external tanks and other hardware from their manufacturing site at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Replacing older barges converted for the Apollo program, she delivered 31 shuttle external tanks from 1999 to 2011. She is now being modified to transport elements of the new Space Launch System (SLS).
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