A NASA aircraft that astronauts used to learn how to land from orbit has touched down on display at the Alabama home of U.S. Space Camp, in the shadow of a winged orbiter like the type it emulated in flight.

NASA 945, one of four Grumman Gulfstream II business jets that were modified to become Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA), was dedicated in 2017 in the Shuttle Park at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville. The STA is mounted behind Pathfinder, a full-scale display of a space shuttle in its launch configuration.

CANON EOS 7 / TAMRON 28-75mm F2.8 / KODAK 400NC

This fully-automatic Sowiet Space Shuttle prototype was developed from the 70s onwards and lifted off successfully in 1987. Exhibited at the Speyer Technikmuseum (Germany)

First approach!

Full scale replica of a shuttle orbiter and actual used fuel tanks.

It was difficult; I told him we don't have to worry about that anymore.

Olympus digital camera

That thing won't survive reentry

Tatami reed space shuttle

Space Shuttle main engine turbopump (i think..)

Expedition 11 crew member John Phillips, top, along with Discovery Pilot James Kelly work to install the Human Research Facility rack in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station July 31, 2005. Astronauts on the shuttle Discovery may conduct the first spacewalk on the underside of the shuttle to prevent a possible re-entry heating problem caused by errant strips of heavy insulating cloth. (NASA)

Discovery, 2/24/2011

Alternate fighter escort

Space Shuttle Discovery

T+2 minutes, solid rocket booster separation. The shuttle is at an altitude of about 28 miles.

space shuttle solid fuel rocket booster

Space shuttle ENTERPRISE Stansted Airport 5th June 1983

Crossing over Riverside Drive and the West Side Highway on its way to JFK.

eXceptionally cool catering truck converted from old DC-3 -- the shade canopy is a sensible touch

From Space Shuttle Discovery

Around T+20 seconds, shuttle rolling right

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Endeavour leaves Disneyland California Adventures in Anaheim. (Rosa Trieu/Neon Tommy)

Space Shuttle Prototype Enterprise on Display at the National Air and Space Museum Annex near the Dulles International Airport outside of Washington DC

Space Shuttle Discovery at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Technikmuseum Speyer

エンデバー引退時のタイヤ。触れる。

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Flying High and Fast...ps...there's Manatees onboard...

Space Shuttle Discovery sits on Launch Pad 39A the night before her final launch. Taken just before Rotating Service Structure (RSS) retraction.

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last night time launch

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