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The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is a test vehicle designed to operate in the atmosphere; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Enterprise was rolled out at Rockwell International's assembly facility in Palmdale, California in 1976. In 1977, it entered service at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base, for a nine-month-long approach and landing test program. The vehicle was flown atop the Boeing 747 Shuttle carrier aircraft and also released for piloted free-flights and landings to check out all systems and performance characteristics. This test program was a necessary prelude to the first orbital flight by the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981.
Upon completion of the approach and landing tests, Enterprise was used for vibration tests at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and for launch complex fit checks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. In 1983, it appeared in the Paris Air Show and other sites in Europe, and was a featured attraction at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred Enterprise to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum where it remained in a storage hangar at Washington's Dulles International Airport. In November, 2003, Enterprise was moved to the nearby Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center where it will be on public display while it is restored.
This is the women's restroom outside the old site of the Star Trek Experience @ the Hilton. I had a conversation with an Orion Slave GIrl in here once.
Sparkling space gun. Tin friction ray gun with bright sparks visible in red plastic barrel. A must for the well-armed astronaut.
Made in Japan.
Painting by Dan Steven
acrylic on board
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Space Invader @ Paris
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SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
Tout autour de la navette Atlantis, on retrouve sur plusieurs étages des expositions interactives pour en apprendre plus sur l’histoire et les technologies du Space Shuttle Program de la NASA. Au fur et à mesure que l’on avance, le couloir devient orange et rouge, comme si l’on ressentait le retour brutal de la navette dans l'atmosphère Terrestre …
All around the Atlantis Shuttle, there are interactive displays on several floors to learn more about the history and technologies of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. As we move forward, the corridor becomes orange and red, as if we felt the sudden return of the shuttle into the Earth's atmosphere …
Inanimate enhanced by negative space..
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Picture Of The Space Shuttle Enterprise Sitting On A Barge In The Middle Of The Hudson River In New York City Before Being Loaded Onto The Flight Deck Of The USS Intrepid. Photo taken Wednesday June 6, 2012.
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Space Shuttle drop test vehicle, Air & Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
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Even in space, people need a place to live. This apartment building is part of a growing space base, giving people and aliens alike a roof over their heads and a good supply of their preferred atmosphere.
Editor's note: The first photos from the 2011 Great Moonbuggy Race are starting to come in! Here are some great shots of this year's teams. What a race! You can see all of the 2011 "Face of the Race" photos in this photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157626399270356/
NASA's 18th annual Great Moonbuggy Race is being run at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., on April 1-2, 2011. The expressions from these young racers tell the story of the race better than words ever can. They truly are the "face of the race." Good luck to all of the teams!
You can watch the moonbuggy race live via Ustream on Friday, April 1. Get more details here:
www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/news/releases/2011/M11...
Check out all the details on the 2011 Great Moonbuggy Race. Winning teams will be posted on Saturday evening (April 2, 2011):
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
SpaceEngine - A free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented using actual astronomical data, while regions uncharted by astronomy are generated procedurally. Millions of galaxies, trillions of stars, countless planets - all available for exploration. You can land any planet, moon or asteroid and watch alien landscapes and celestial phenomena. You can even pilot starships and atmospheric shuttles.
Of course it's layered! However, I took both images within 24 hours myself. And I believe the shuttle belongs to be among the stars...
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.
"Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."
- Star Trek, Original series.
Please either click on the picture or View On Black... it just doesn't work on white.
"Go Play In Space" is a free tutorial ebook and exploration guide for the (also free) Orbiter space flight simulator (www.orbitersim.com). You can download "Go Play In Space" from www.virtualspaceflight.com or from www.migman.com/orbiter/orbiter.htm
Illustration for www.365daysofastronomy.org podcast for April 14, 2009, "Exploring Space with Your Computer."
The Raygun Gothic Rocket, vintage travel posters from an alternate 1930s, early 1940s, a retro future.
These spacer cable pole brackets were used in the section of my neighborhood built in 1962-63. They must have been the type used after the hook style in the 1950s I posted a shot of earlier this week.
The Space Needle. Note the Orange Cap - Painted to commemorate the 40 year anniversary of the World Expo in Seattle.
The graphics on the box are great, but best of all is the fabulous "lunar surface" packaging that holds the Fisher Space Pen inside its case. It's just a simple thing, but it's good fun, and it does a lot to reinforce the pen's Space Age mystique.