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This weekend I was sick as a dog and needed something to distract myself, so I built the Lego Space Shuttle kit I'd bought earlier. What I learned: I'm still so inspired by the shuttle program. It captures something about this country's optimism that seems so lacking today.
Also, I'm a dork.
Achoo.
"Scenes of the Space Shuttle Challenger taken with a 70mm camera onboard the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01)"
By a Challenger crew member, June 22, 1983.
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Information Agency
This just went over my house! Accompanied by a fighter jet! (I only had a moment when we heard the sound of it coming....I had my 7D with just the macro lens on at 640 ISO for shooting something else...all I could do is point up and shoot, no time to change anything)
I built a model of one when I was a kid, and I saw them launch on television a dozen times, but I never had the chance to see one for real or get this close to it until this weekend past. The SIZE of it... And then you think, "This went out there... and came BACK." And you realize you're standing underneath an honest-to-Goddess SPACESHIP, one of only a handful of things on earth that can truthfully be called that. Astonishing.
A great view of a wind tunnel model of the original (I think) MSC (Max Faget)/North American Rockwell(?) Phase A “DC-3” shuttle orbiter.
So cool. I wonder...HOPE...this somehow survived.
PictionID:43834234 - Catalog:14_008728 - Title:Atlas Details: NASA Layouts - Filename:14_008728.TIF - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
This week (unless he is late), I am going into a new frontier.....Fatherhood!!!!
Like all who have gone before me, I'm about to jump out of the spaceship and free fall into the great unknown. Wish me luck!
Photo Info: Picture of the super sonic space suit used during the "red bull space jump" this year.
51L-S-038 (31 Jan. 1986) --- Memorial services for the Challenger Seven were conducted on the morning of Jan. 31, 1986 at the Johnson Space Center's main mall. Among those in attendance were former and present astronauts and space shuttle payload specialists. U.S. Sen. Jake Garn (R., Utah) visits at center with Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia. Others pictured include German PS Ulf Merbold, French PS Patrick Baudry and NASA astronauts Robert L. Stewart, Marsha S. Ivins, David C. Leestma and C. Gordon Fullerton, along with former astronaut Eugene A. Cernan. Photo credit: NASA
Trip to Washington taking in Alexandria, Washington Mall, Arlington Cemetery, Washington Nationals Baseball, Mount Vernon and Dulles Air and Space Museum
Seen through coastal fog. Strapped to the back of a 747, the space shuttle is on its way to Los Angeles where it will reside in the California Science Center.
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NASA Shuttle Bus- April 30th, 2014-
We live right outside of NASA here in Houston, They retired the 747 used to ferry the Space Shuttles after their flights. They retired the Jumbo Bus and hauled it in pieces to its final resting spot at the Space Museum on the NASA Grounds. They had to move all the pieces at night and it came right by my neighborhood last night! What an event They had everything shut down! It as quite a sight. It was stopped here for 30 minutes while utility companies moved overhead wires at an upcoming intersection, making for a great photo-op!
for the full story... go to www.chron.com/default/article/Clear-Lake-highway-set-to-c...
N905NA, callsign "Pluto 95 Heavy," carries the Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) to JFK from Washington, D.C.
This is the space shuttle Columbia (STS-5) returning to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert in November-1982. One of the chase planes is in the upper right corner
April 17, 2012. The space shuttle Discovery flies over the Washington D.C. area. Photo: Ryan Rayburn / World Bank
The first space shuttle to launch into orbit was Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981. The final mission ended on July 21, 2011 when Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. There were great successes and failures during the three decades of NASA's Space Shuttle Program. The loss of the Challenger and Columbia crews were terrible tragedies. Other shuttle missions saved Hubble, allowed for the construction of the International Space Station, contributed significantly to earth science and prepared the way for man's future exploration of space. Images courtesy of NASA.