View allAll Photos Tagged SpaceShuttle
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!
This is a look at the shuttle Explorer's nose gear and belly from the front. The Explorer is a life sized mockup of the Orbiter, with some stuff that flew on the real thing, I believe. The Explorer and the Enterprise exhibit at NASM Udvar-Hazy are the closest that most people will get to an actual space shuttle until they are retired.
Space Shuttle Prototype Enterprise on Display at the National Air and Space Museum Annex near the Dulles International Airport outside of Washington DC
It was quite hot in the East Bay causing not only the fog to linger over the water, but also making it impossible to get a sharp zoomed in photo.
Floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 150 miles northeast of Cape Canaveral are the right and left solid rocket boosters, which were jettisoned from the Space Shuttle Discovery 2 and 1/2 minutes into the ascent to orbit on Saturday evening, Dec. 9. Though the boosters landed in the ocean miles from each other, overnight wind and ocean currents allowed the left booster, which was floating higher in the water, to migrate to the location of the right booster. The SRB retrieval team monitored the boosters through the night, and confirmed that the boosters did not contact each other. Both boosters were towed back to Hangar AF at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, where the refurbishment operations are now underway.
Image credit: NASA