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Russian Space Shuttle Buran
Amazing ship measuring 36 m long, 16 m high and weighing about 80 tons.
The BURAN prototype OK-GLI shown in the museum was built in 1984 and was used for testing glidingflight and landing after reentry into the atmosphere. During this part of the project the OK-GLI completed 25 atmospheric flights between 1984 and 1989 and significantly contributed to the successful orbital flight of a BURAN shuttle in 1988.
Incomplet. Lacks wings and a some other detail. Now disassembled.
Next to a Mir module for size comparison. (The spaceshuttle is so large because I wanted to build it to the same scale as Mir so they could go together ... turned out a spaceshuttle that big was a little too ambitious.)
No.1 of 2 early morning launch 1990.
OM-1 200mm Z Kodak Color print film, machine processed.ISO 200
Scanned cannon 8800
Space Shuttle Discovery passing over Dulles International Airport before doing a fly-over of Washington DC.
This morning the space shuttle Enterprise flew up from DC on the back of NASA's 747 shuttle transporter. I caught a brief glimpse from the 9th floor at work.
It will soon be on the deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (an aircraft carrier docked along the Hudson River).
Russian Space Shuttle Buran
Amazing ship measuring 36 m long, 16 m high and weighing about 80 tons.
The BURAN prototype OK-GLI shown in the museum was built in 1984 and was used for testing glidingflight and landing after reentry into the atmosphere. During this part of the project the OK-GLI completed 25 atmospheric flights between 1984 and 1989 and significantly contributed to the successful orbital flight of a BURAN shuttle in 1988.
As the Space Shuttle Endeavor approached the space station this week, crew members on board the station snapped this shot. Clearly visible through the windshield is the very latest in NASA-issue gear. (Source: NASA. Original available here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts123...
Mercedes E-Klasse mir Sonderaufbau zum Langstrecken-KTW, davor der Mercedes Sprinter RTW "Schleswig-Holstein-Modell"
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My wife is quite the space geek. As a child, she would stage launches for her family using cardboard spacecraft, pinning them into orbit on her bedposts. As a tribute to the retiring Discovery shuttle, I mounted her Lego shuttle to her Lego airplane and hung them both from the ceiling in her office. Handily, this also keeps them out of reach of our two-year-old, who is still too destructive to be left alone with our fancier Lego models.
Russian Space Shuttle Buran
Amazing ship measuring 36 m long, 16 m high and weighing about 80 tons.
The BURAN prototype OK-GLI shown in the museum was built in 1984 and was used for testing glidingflight and landing after reentry into the atmosphere. During this part of the project the OK-GLI completed 25 atmospheric flights between 1984 and 1989 and significantly contributed to the successful orbital flight of a BURAN shuttle in 1988.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight.
Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia.However, during the construction of Columbia, details of the final design changed, particularly with regard to the weight of the fuselage and wings. Refitting Enterprise for spaceflight would have involved dismantling the orbiter and returning the sections to subcontractors across the country. As this was an expensive proposition, it was determined to be less costly to build Challenger around a body frame (STA-099) that had been created as a test article. Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but Endeavour was built from structural spares instead
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
Commander, Space Shuttle Challenger. Lt. Col. USAF, and explorer. We talk about the cost of freedom when visiting these military cemeteries. We must also recognize that the cost of exploration is very high, also. The numbers of men and women who have lost their lives in the exploration of the world, our continent, the oceans and the vast reaches of space is very large. Yet, the unrestrained spirit of man seeks the unknown no matter what the risk. We must always be willing to let the risks be taken and honor both the one who discovers and the one who sacrificed so that others may follow. To not explore, because the risk is high, is to restrain man's spirit with the result being the loss of discovery that advances mankind.
"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
John Kennedy, Rice University 9/12/1962
NASA Shuttle Bus- April 30th, 2014- The tail section.
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...
The Space Shuttle lives on through the RS-25 engines that will be launching SLS and Orion with astronauts back to the Moon.
#artemis #spaceshuttle #space
Russian Space Shuttle Buran
Amazing ship measuring 36 m long, 16 m high and weighing about 80 tons.
The BURAN prototype OK-GLI shown in the museum was built in 1984 and was used for testing glidingflight and landing after reentry into the atmosphere. During this part of the project the OK-GLI completed 25 atmospheric flights between 1984 and 1989 and significantly contributed to the successful orbital flight of a BURAN shuttle in 1988.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. In the Orbiter Processing Facility, workers help guide the nose cap of the orbiter Atlantis toward a stand. The cap was removed from the orbiter for routine inspection. The nose cap is made of reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC), which has an operating range of minus 250 degrees F to about 3,000 degrees F. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
This is made possible by:
CelesTrak: NORAD Two-Line Element Sets Current Data
&
Artemis : a simple application to create real time orbits for Google Earth.
Refer Keyhole BBS Thread "International Space Station"
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