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Space Shuttle Atlantis launches into history from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Photo credit: NASA
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, destined for the Intrepid, was carried underneath the MTA's Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday, June 3, 2012. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Vincent Schiano.
NASA photographers captured the final landing of the space shuttle as it happened today and mankind turned the page on a remarkable story of exploration. As a former USAF pilot, I had the opportunity to train pilots that went into NASA and I flew rocket parts aboard my C-141 aircraft. I miss all that.
Space Shuttle Endeavor makes its final journey to Los Angeles. On it's way, it made two victory laps around San Francisco.
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These are some images of Shuttle Atlantis as it was mated to the 747 at Edwards Air Force Base in California on May 31, 2009. This was prior to leaving Edwards on the morning of June 1 on the way to Biggs Army Air Field in El Paso, Texas.
Image credit: NASA
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GD/Astronautics Details: Bio-Medical Carry-on Payload--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
GD/Astronautics Details: Small Vertebrate Carry-on Payload--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
I needed to be at a work site today doing a Caracara (a threatened raptor) survey that always begins 30-minutes before sunrise. I was about 70 miles away from Cape Canaveral and knowing that the shuttle was launching this morning, I got there a few minutes early. I didn't get there in time to photograph the shuttle itself (although I saw it!), but I got to photograph the contrails it left later. As the sun rose, the sun rays on the contrails made for a cool effect. I'll post several of the shots I got over the next few days. The little puff of a cloud at the top of the photo is where the booster rockets separated from the shuttle.
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GD/Astronautics Details: Plant Research Carry-on Payload--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, destined for the Intrepid, was carried underneath the MTA's Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday, June 3, 2012. Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Brian Mullin.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise, destined for the Intrepid, was carried underneath the MTA's Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge and Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on Sunday, June 3, 2012.
The photo shows the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge in its raised position to accommodate the shuttle.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
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As follows:
1682 Space Shuttle (Small)
6339 Shuttle Launch Pad (Small)
60080 Spaceport (Medium)
10231 Shuttle Expedition/10213 Shuttle Adventure (Large)
7470 Space Shuttle Discovery (Large)
8480 FOS Light Space Shuttle (Extra Large)
Which size do you prefer the most?
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A closeup of the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs) of the Space Shuttle Discovery. These were used in the ascent stage of flight, in addition to the Solid Rocket Boosters, to lift the shuttle into orbit. Each of these Rocketdyne RS-25 engines produced a maximum thrust of 418,000 lbf at sea level, and 512,300 lbf in a vacuum.
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Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, is the centerpiece of the new McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The orbiter's been at the museum since it opened last December, but the space hangar has been closed off while workers refurbished the Enterprise.
Now, visitors will be able to get closer, exploring the Shuttle and a host of other space artifacts from the ground level or from two elevated overlooks.
"It's beautiful ... very impressive," said museum curator Paul Ceruzzi. "It deservedly will be the center of attention." Visitors can't climb into the shuttle, but Ceruzzi says he eventually hopes the museum will have a shuttle cockpit displayed separately. He also says the museum is considering putting cameras inside some of the exhibits to give visitors a virtual inside look. And he hopes they may someday replace Enterprise with a space-flown orbiter, once the Shuttle fleet is retired.
Enterprise never flew in space, but it was crucial to the Space Shuttle program. Its series of approach and landing tests in 1977 proved the orbiter could fly in the atmosphere and land like an airplane, except without power -- like a glider (+ View Photo). Astronaut Gordon Fullerton, who piloted the Enterprise to its first landing alongside Apollo 13 veteran Fred Haise, rekindled memories about the test flights during a dinner at the museum earlier this month (+ Read More).
After those tests, Enterprise was flown to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where it was mated with the external tank and solid rocket boosters and subjected to a series of vertical ground vibration tests. The orbiter was also sent to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it was rolled out to the launch pad to act as a "stand-in" as NASA prepared for the first shuttle launch