View allAll Photos Tagged SpaceShuttle
Space Shuttle Discovery lifting off on mission STS-116, 8:47pm EST, December 9. Quite a light it made, but we heard no rumble in Orlando.
Pima Air and Space Museum
Thermal Micrometeoroid Garment Assembly (TMG)
The TMG is part of the extravehicular spacesuit worn by astronauts during spacewalks. It protects the wearer against solar radiation, extreme temperatures, micrometeoroids, and other orbital debris. Small flecks of paint or millimeter-sized micrometeoroids traveling at thousands of miles per hour can depressurize a suit or vehicle, potentially killing an astronaut.
7.) Vest
The vest component of the TMG fits over the Hard Upper Torso unit of the extravehicular spacesuit.
Pima Air and Space Museum
NASA Life Vest Harness
An unissued early Space Shuttle life vest harness designed to be used during shuttle launch. These harnesses were utilized until the Challenger disaster in 1986, after which updated safety precautions required pressure suits to be worn during launch and landing.
Space Shuttle External Tank ET-94 in Marina del Rey en route to Fisherman's Village Marina del Rey, CA
May 18, 2016
DSC_9178
Space Shuttle Atlantis lifting off on mission STS-117. This is just after solid rocket booster (SRB) separation--you can see them peeling off as the shuttle keeps on going.
Part of a platter for a women who is turning 33. The colors are off since it's pouring rain and dark and dreary. She asked for purple, orange, bright pink and emerald green. She's going to Legoland, the Kennedy Space Center and on a road trip.
a view of the shuttle launch pads in the background, coreopsis covered sand dunes in the foreground.
Space Shuttle Discovery is bathed in light on Launch Pad 39B. Seen above the external tank is the vent hood (known as the "beanie cap") at the end of the gaseous oxygen vent arm. Vapors are created as the liquid oxygen in the external tank boil off and the hood vents the gaseous oxygen vapors away from the shuttle. Below it is the orbiter access arm with the White Room at the end, through which the crew accesses the orbiter.
Discovery is scheduled to launch on mission STS-116 at on Saturday, Dec. 9. On the mission, the crew will deliver truss segment, P5, to the International Space Station and begin the intricate process of reconfiguring and redistributing the power generated by the two pairs of solar arrays. The P5 will be mated to the P4 truss that was delivered and attached during the STS-115 mission in September.
Image credit: NASA/George Shelton