With operations in full swing at the launch site, a firefight test on the Launch Platform is a spectacular site.

Link bridge operations begin between the Sea
Launch Commander and the Odyssey Launch Platform, which is now ballasted to launch depth. The bridge enables foot traffic between the two vessels.

The crew watches as the link bridge sets down on the deck of the Odyssey.

Always an amazing operation, the link bridge activity is a favorite for everyone to see, viewed here from a deck on the Sea Launch Commander.

Rico Attanasio (left), Launch Day director for Boeing Satellite Systems, and Jeff Snyder, spacecraft mission manager for XM Satellite Radio, are among the spectators.

(Photos by David Hutsell
for Sea Launch)

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