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We were in Florida when the space shuttle Discovery took off on April 5, 2010. Although we were 100 miles away we were still able to see the flames from the shuttle as it lifted in the air and I was able to get some shots of it.
Not really pleased with the shots I got, but thrilled to have witnessed the final flight of the Endeavour as it comes to live here in Los Angeles
Quinn build the Lego Space Shuttle. For a 1200 piece kid he flew through building this without soliciting any help. So for kit aged 16+ he sure had no troubles at 9. Great job!
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 71O (STS-58) through 81E (STS-63); the use of the letter O means they had 15 flights planned for KSC for fiscal year 1987 (until September 1987.) August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 81F (STS-64) through 81K (STS-69), including Mission 82A (STS-4V). August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 71I (STS-52) through 71N (STS-57). August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
NASA Shuttle Bus- April 30th, 2014- Vertical 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...
This early morning skyscape was captured last week on August 4th, looking northeast across calm waters in the Turn Basin at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. In a striking contrast in motion, the space shuttle Discovery, mounted on a massive transporter, creeps toward launch pad 39A at less than two miles per hour, while a brilliant meteor streaks through the sky traveling many miles per second. Of course, this week skywatchers have seen many similar meteor streaks during the annual Perseid meteor shower. But the meteor flashing above Discovery is not likely to be one of the Perseids because its path doesn't point back to that shower's radiant. Seen here near picture center, brilliant planet Venus still dominates the sky as the Morning Star, though. Yellowish tinted Mars lies near the top of the frame and Orion's red giant star Betelgeuse is toward the right. From apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090814.html
I built this model many years back. It's the 1/200 scale model that snaps together. I painted this using some actual shuttle pictures to give it some realism. I'm not too sure about the reason for the wavy horizontal lines in the picture.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifting off on mission STS-116, 8:47pm EST, December 9. This was just after Solid Rocket Booster separation--the little white dot is the shuttle's 3 main engines, and the orange trails are the boosters going astray.
"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
The Pathfinder Shuttle Stack at the U.S Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL, is the only full shuttle stack in the world.
Pathfinder served as a non-flight test vehicle and is currently undergoing restoration.
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development.
The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. Operational missions launched numerous satellites, interplanetary probes, and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), conducted science experiments in orbit, participated in the Shuttle-Mir program with Russia, and participated in construction and servicing of the International Space Station (ISS).
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 81L (STS-70) through 81N (STS-72), including Mission 82B (STS-5V). August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.