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A storm was moving toward the Space Center Houston complex.
Originally I was hoping to bokeh out the background and leave the stop sign in focus, but it was impossible to do with this lens.
My family and I were heading to Wright Patterson Air Force Base on February 1, 2003 when I turned on the radio and heard the space shuttle Columbia did not show up on time to the landing site and that NASA had lost contact with the shuttle. I knew immediately what had happened.
We continued on the the Air Force Museum and everyone was in a fog about it. I stopped in the gift shop and got the only mission patch they had for this shuttle flight.
I felt the same grief as I did with Challenger. Go to the web link below to read about this great crew and their ship.
Pima Air and Space Museum
(exhibit under construction)
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM FIXED BASE GUIDANCE AND NAVIGATION SIMULATOR
One of only three advanced space shuttle orbiter simulators used to train NASA astronauts.
The fixed-base Guidance and Navigation Simulator (GNS) represents one of only three simulators once used to train astronauts for the Space Shuttle Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Along with the motion-base Shuttle Mission Simulator (SMS) and the Fixed-Base Simulator (FBS), these complex machines were used to create a series of various mission tasks ranging from full mission rehearsals down to recreating specific exercises such as atmosphere entry or launching satellites.
Predating the SMS and FBS, the GNS was built in the late 1970s and operational by 1982. Initially it was primarily used only to test and verify guidance and navigation software that would later be installed in the SMS, FBS, and orbiters. As such it originally did not have visual computer-generated windscreen displays and much of the interior was unfinished, though it did contain the same complex array of cockpit instrumentation, controls, and computer displays operated by five distinct general-purpose computers (GPC) present in actual orbiters.
Following the Challenger accident investigation, the Rogers Commission suggested that NASA invest in additional crew training simulators to provide increased and expanded training and to handle the higher frequency of missions. However, the cost of providing an additional SMS or FBS proved too expensive, so NASA elected to upgrade the GNS into a full fixed-base crew simulator that was essentially identical to the FBS.
The upgraded GNS flight deck was enhanced to provide a more realistic appearance and a full visual computer-generated imagery system for the six forward facing windscreens. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was a new science in the early 1980s and all the simulators used a first-generation CGI system, rudimentary by today's standards.
For 20 years the upgraded GNS was used interchangeably with the FBS and it is likely that every post-Challenger crew spent time in the GNS practicing launch, ascent, orbit, re-entry, and landing procedures.
With the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the GNS was retired in 2011. In late 2020 the GNS was used on the set of a science fiction movie due to be released in late 2021 [not sure why they’re being cryptic, its Roland Emmerich’s Moonfall]. The filmmakers modified the simulator's external appearance, making the GNS more closely resemble the outer surface of an actual orbiter, along with internal cabin modifications. Following movie shooting, the GNS flight deck was donated to the Pima Air & Space Museum in early 2021.
Space Shuttle for iPhone, by Laminar Research, same people who do X-Plane.
After many attempts I was incredibly excited to successfully dock the space shuttle with the International Space Station.
Maneuvering a craft in space is quite different than flying a plane since you have all three axis' to work with.
My score was 95%!
I am automatically taking a picture of Enterprise's move to the Intrepid. Please continue to check my photostream for new images. A new image uploads every minute!
I enhanced the vibrance of the colors and used the "Dreamy" filter in a new iPhone app called PhotoForge.
This is the 1/72nd scale 4D Vision shuttle I built to get me through the winter. It's snap together with no painting required...ideal for those times when you're stuck indoors.
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