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STS-41B Astronaut Bruce McCandless II checks the interface between his baby (the Manned Maneuvering Unit) and its berthing dock within Challenger's cargo bay prior to the flight.
Trip to Washington taking in Alexandria, Washington Mall, Arlington Cemetery, Washington Nationals Baseball, Mount Vernon and Dulles Air and Space Museum
"Scenes of the Space Shuttle Challenger taken with a 70mm camera onboard the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01)"
By a Challenger crew member, June 22, 1983.
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Information Agency
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. In the Orbiter Processing Facility, an External Tank (ET) digital still camera is positioned into the right-hand liquid oxygen umbilical well on Space Shuttle Atlantis to determine if it fits properly. NASA is pursuing use of the camera, beginning with the Shuttles Return To Flight, to obtain and downlink high-resolution images of the ET following separation of the ET from the orbiter after launch. The Kodak camera will record 24 images, at one frame per 1.5 seconds, on a flash memory card. After orbital insertion, the crew will transfer the images from the memory card to a laptop computer. The files will then be downloaded through the Ku-band system to the Mission Control Center in Houston for analysis. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Enterprise... it never went into space, but it was more than a concept vehicle. In 2007, it was at the Udvar-Hazy wing of the National Air and Space Museum. I believe that Atlantis, Discovery or Endeavor has now replaced it at Udvar-Hazy. (I think the Enterprise is now in Manhattan, but I'm not sure about that).
This is a photo of the Space Shuttle on the carrier 747 passing near to my house in Oronge County California, USA.
The Space Shuttle at US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. Look at bottom left, you can see my wife walking, gives you sense of size of this exhibit.
Built for the 2012 Mocathalon on MocPages. Commemorates the Challenger Shuttle explosion on January 28, 1986.
Not enough room in the front for a nice nose shot because it's crammed into a pavilion ,and there's a 45 minute cattle line to stand on a platform .
A Florida Air National Guard F-15C Eagle aircraft assigned to the 125th Fighter Wing flies a Combat Air Patrol (CAP) mission over Cape Kennedy, Florida (FL) in support of Operation NOBLE EAGLE. The Space Shuttle Endeavor is positioned on the launch pad.
The fifth and final orbiter ever built for the NASA Space Shuttle program, Endeavour (OV-105) was also the most technologically advanced vehicle in the fleet when she first entered into service in 1992. Improvements included better avionics, inertial measurement units, general purpose computers, and tactical air navigation systems superior to those found on any other shuttle at the the time.
Authorized by Congress in August 1987 as a replacement for the Space Shuttle Challenger, Endeavour was constructed in just under 4 years for approximately $1.7 billion. Her maiden voyage was on May 7, 1992 as part of the STS-49 mission.
Endeavour was scheduled to be the final orbiter to ever fly on a regular mission (STS-134) in the NASA Space Shuttle Program, but with the passing of a 2011 appropriations bill authorizing the conversion of STS-335 to STS-135, one last mission, flown by Atlantis, was approved.
STS-134 was commanded by Captain Mark E. Kelly with Gregory H. Johnson piloting Endeavour. Michael Fincke, Roberto Vittori, Andrew J. Feustel, and Gregory Chamitoff were all Mission Specialists.
The mission's total liftoff weight was measured at 2,052,443 kg (4,524,863 lb), with a payload that included the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 2, ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 3, GLACIER Freezer Module, and Orbiter Boom Sensor System. Endeavour also carried four Department of Defense payloads: MAUI, SEITI, RAMBO-2, and SIMPLEX.
At liftoff, Endeavour generated 5.255 MN (1,181,400 lbf) of thrust, burning 4,990 kg (11,000 lb) of fuel per second. She reached orbit 8 minutes and 26 seconds later, traveling 27,650 km/h (17,180 mph), roughly equivalent to March 23 at sea level.
STS-134 was the final flight of Endeavour, and lasted 15 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes, and 51 seconds. During this time, the orbiter traveled 10,477,185 km (6,510,221 mi). At the end of its service, Endeavour had flown 25 missions, spent 296 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes, and 2 seconds in space, completed 4,671 orbits, and traveled 197,761,262 km (122,883,151 mi).
Although the youngest of the five Space Shuttles, Endeavour holds the most notable milestones, including delivery of the first U.S. component to the International Space Station (STS-188), the flight of the first African-American woman in space (STS-47), the first ever three-man EVA (STS-49), and the mission that saved the Hubble Space Telescope (STS-61).
Viewed from the apex of the recently completed (2011) Max Brewer bridge in Titusville, Florida. At close to 30 m (100 ft) above the water, and 18.2 km (11.3 mi) away from Launch Complex 39, the bridge is widely considered the best location from which the general public can view a launch for free.
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flea market near Mansfield OH a while ago note the vintage of the cars
Tenuous Link: space available..... something that could go into space if it had wings wasn't dented and wasn't on top of a flea market
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, destined for the Intrepid, was carried underneath the MTA's Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday, June 3, 2012. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The fifth and final orbiter ever built for the NASA Space Shuttle program, Endeavour (OV-105) was also the most technologically advanced vehicle in the fleet when she first entered into service in 1992. Improvements included better avionics, inertial measurement units, general purpose computers, and tactical air navigation systems superior to those found on any other shuttle at the the time.
Authorized by Congress in August 1987 as a replacement for the Space Shuttle Challenger, Endeavour was constructed in just under 4 years for approximately $1.7 billion. Her maiden voyage was on May 7, 1992 as part of the STS-49 mission.
Endeavour was scheduled to be the final orbiter to ever fly on a regular mission (STS-134) in the NASA Space Shuttle Program, but with the passing of a 2011 appropriations bill authorizing the conversion of STS-335 to STS-135, one last mission, flown by Atlantis, was approved.
STS-134 was commanded by Captain Mark E. Kelly with Gregory H. Johnson piloting Endeavour. Michael Fincke, Roberto Vittori, Andrew J. Feustel, and Gregory Chamitoff were all Mission Specialists.
The mission's total liftoff weight was measured at 2,052,443 kg (4,524,863 lb), with a payload that included the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 2, ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 3, GLACIER Freezer Module, and Orbiter Boom Sensor System. Endeavour also carried four Department of Defense payloads: MAUI, SEITI, RAMBO-2, and SIMPLEX.
At liftoff, Endeavour generated 5.255 MN (1,181,400 lbf) of thrust, burning 4,990 kg (11,000 lb) of fuel per second. She reached orbit 8 minutes and 26 seconds later, traveling 27,650 km/h (17,180 mph), roughly equivalent to March 23 at sea level.
STS-134 was the final flight of Endeavour, and lasted 15 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes, and 51 seconds. During this time, the orbiter traveled 10,477,185 km (6,510,221 mi). At the end of its service, Endeavour had flown 25 missions, spent 296 days, 3 hours, 34 minutes, and 2 seconds in space, completed 4,671 orbits, and traveled 197,761,262 km (122,883,151 mi).
Although the youngest of the five Space Shuttles, Endeavour holds the most notable milestones, including delivery of the first U.S. component to the International Space Station (STS-188), the flight of the first African-American woman in space (STS-47), the first ever three-man EVA (STS-49), and the mission that saved the Hubble Space Telescope (STS-61).
Viewed from the apex of the recently completed (2011) Max Brewer bridge in Titusville, Florida. At close to 30 m (100 ft) above the water, and 18.2 km (11.3 mi) away from Launch Complex 39, the bridge is widely considered the best location from which the general public can view a launch for free.
Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) rules in her new home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center.
For more information;
www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/a...
A great oblique view eastward, across the Florida peninsula & Merritt Island, as seen during STS-4.
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Credit: Cliff Lethbridge/"Spaceline, Inc." website
Interesting reading. Hopefully, some of it may even be correct:
www.nasa.gov/history/40-years-ago-sts-4-columbias-final-o...
Particularly the following…I had no idea:
“Mission Control awakened the crew on flight day 6 with music from “Chariots of Fire.” The main activity for the day involved Mattingly putting on an Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), the suit designed for spacewalks, in Columbia’s airlock. Although the STS-4 timeline did not include a spacewalk, Mattingly had trained on the ground for a contingency spacewalk, for example to manually close the payload bay doors if needed. With a spacewalk planned for STS-5, Mattingly believed testing the spacesuit on this flight seemed prudent. Although mission controllers had not rehearsed the activity before the flight, Mattingly completed the task successfully.”
Did you?
PictionID:45176928 - Catalog:14_016991 - Title:Space Shuttle Details: Mid-fuselage - Filename:14_016991.TIF - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
NASA Shuttle Bus- April 30th, 2014- Entourage
We live right outside of NASA here in Houston, They retired the 747 used to ferry the Space Shuttles after their flights. They retired the Jumbo Bus and hauled it in pieces to its final resting spot at the Space Museum on the NASA Grounds. They had to move all the pieces at night and it came right by my neighborhood last night! What an event They had everything shut down! It as quite a sight. It was stopped here for 30 minutes while utility companies moved overhead wires at an upcoming intersection, making for a great photo-op!
for the full story... go to www.chron.com/default/article/Clear-Lake-highway-set-to-c...