MV Liberty Star is a formerly NASA-owned and United Space Alliance-operated vessel which primarily served as an SRB recovery ship following the launch of Space Shuttle missions. It also performed tugb
Liberty Star with SRB after STS 87
Liberty Star carrying the DeepWorker 2000 submersible
The United States Merchant Marine Academy is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen to serve as officers in the United States Merchant Marine, branches of t
MV Liberty Star
…tugboat duties and acted as a research platform. In 2012, it was transferred to the U.S. Department of Transportation for use as a training vessel at the United States Merchant Marine Academy as the T/V Kings Pointer. Her sister ship is the MV Freedom Star. The recovery ships were built at Atlantic Marine Shipyard on Fort George Island…
Aerial view of United States Merchant Marine Academy
George W. Bush delivering the commencement address at the academy.
Members of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy march, during the 58th Presidential Inauguration, Washington, D.C., 20 Jan. 2017.
Secretaries Cup Rivalry football game between the Merchant Marine Academy and Coast Guard Academy