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Russian Space Shuttle Buran
Amazing ship measuring 36 m long, 16 m high and weighing about 80 tons.
The BURAN prototype OK-GLI shown in the museum was built in 1984 and was used for testing glidingflight and landing after reentry into the atmosphere. During this part of the project the OK-GLI completed 25 atmospheric flights between 1984 and 1989 and significantly contributed to the successful orbital flight of a BURAN shuttle in 1988.
Built for the 2012 Mocathalon on MocPages. Commemorates the Challenger Shuttle explosion on January 28, 1986.
Columbia lifts off the launch pad on April 12, 1981, during the first launch of the space shuttle. This image was taken near the vehicle assembly building on Kodak color print film using a 200mm zoom lens and a 2x adapter.
Endeavour at the California Science Center. More here: communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2013/01/24/evocative-end...
Space Shuttle Endeavour as it is flying over the Los Angeles coastline just north of LAX, 21 Sep 2012.
Space Shuttle Endeavour as it is flying over the Los Angeles coastline just north of LAX, 21 Sep 2012.
This is my Homework Organization Poster. At first I couldn't think of anything but then I thought of this. I think it is involved with Organization because it needs a lot of Organization to plan for a Space shuttle launch, food, docking with a space station, preparing the astronauts, landing etc. Also, if it is Organized well then the astronauts will come back safely and it will be successful.
A photograph I personally took of a 1:1 scale mock-up Space Shuttle, built in 1991 by Carrington Engineering in Newcastle Australia, with the full permission of NASA (which included access to real shuttle design plans!)
The company built two of these, for (I think) AU1990$300,000 each, primarily as a demo of the company's designers. The first was sold to a businessman in Japan who did the dodge deliberately not paying the custom importing costs so that it got impounded by the authorities, he refused to pay the money that was owed, and who then later bought via an intermediary at auction for less than the cost of the scrap metal. It was to have become an attraction at an amusement park ("Space World" in Kitakyushu, www.spaceworld.co.jp/english/, I believe.)
The second, a mock-up of the Challenger, sent the company broke after another bit of misfortune. What remained of it became a road-side eyecatch for a Hunter Valley Rose Farm.
(If the picture quality is a bit pecular, it's because there were taken with a pre-digital camera about 17 years ago.. The 600dpi raw scans are available on request.)
More photos at: hunter.apana.org.au/~cjb/Image/Newcastle_Space_Shuttle/
The first Space Shuttle pilot, Bob Crippen, speaks to the NASA Tweetup while the last crew of the Space Shutte, of STS-135, gets strapped in and ready to launch.
Space shuttle Discovery landed at Dulles airport on April 17 on the back of a 747 after a fly-around of much of the region. It’s now bound for the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Russian Space Shuttle Buran
Amazing ship measuring 36 m long, 16 m high and weighing about 80 tons.
The BURAN prototype OK-GLI shown in the museum was built in 1984 and was used for testing glidingflight and landing after reentry into the atmosphere. During this part of the project the OK-GLI completed 25 atmospheric flights between 1984 and 1989 and significantly contributed to the successful orbital flight of a BURAN shuttle in 1988.
S85-46205 (December 1985) --- Sharon Christa McAuliffe (left), from Concord, New Hampshire, and Barbara R. Morgan of McCall, Idaho, have been named NASA Teacher-in-Space Project prime and backup payload specialists, respectively, for the first citizen observer position of the STS program, scheduled for a Challenger flight in January 1986. Photo credit: NASA
very impressive to walk around and under the shuttle. i want to go back and see it when its vertical and attached to the external tanks!
"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 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.
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)
David D. McBride, director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, speaks from a podium underneath the space shuttle Endeavour during the grand opening ceremony for the California Science center's Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Los Angeles. Endeavour, built as a replacement for space shuttle Challenger, completed 25 missions, spent 299 days in orbit, and orbited Earth 4,671 times while traveling 122,883,151 miles. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Editor's Note" This is image (14) of (18) in a series.
Enjoy this great series of images smoke and fire of the launch of space shuttle Atlantis. Atlantis lifted off on May 14 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on one of the final space shuttle visits to the International Space Station. The mission will deliver cargo, critical spare parts and a Russian laboratory. The STS-132 mission is the third of five shuttle launches planned for 2010 and the last scheduled mission for shuttle Atlantis.
Image Credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
More about NASA's Space Shuttle program:
Manufacturer: Rockwell International Corporation
Country of Origin: United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 57 ft. tall x 122 ft. long x 78 ft. wing span, 150,000 lb. (1737.36 x 3718.57 x 2377.44cm, 68039.6kg)
Materials:
Aluminum airframe and body with some fiberglass features; payload bay doors are graphite epoxy composite; thermal tiles are simulated (polyurethane foam) except for test samples of actual tiles and thermal blankets.
The first Space Shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Although the airframe and flight control elements are like those of the Shuttles flown in space, this vehicle has no propulsion system and only simulated thermal tiles because these features were not needed for atmospheric and ground tests. "Enterprise" was rolled out at Rockwell International's assembly facility in Palmdale, California, in 1976. In 1977, it entered service for a nine-month-long approach-and-landing test flight program. Thereafter it was used for vibration tests and fit checks at NASA centers, and it also appeared in the 1983 Paris Air Show and the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred "Enterprise" to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
This image is part of a series of images showing various stages of the process to assemble an external tank beginning with the early stages of welding and ending with roll out of a completed external tank to the Pegasus barge at the dock at Michoud Assembly Facility. Several graphic images show the internal and external views of the Liquid Oxygen Tank, Intertank, Liquid Hydrogen Tank and a completed external tank with thermal protection system.
Image credit: NASA