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Trip to Washington taking in Alexandria, Washington Mall, Arlington Cemetery, Washington Nationals Baseball, Mount Vernon and Dulles Air and Space Museum
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.
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.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle to fly in space. It entered service in 1984 and retired from spaceflight as the oldest and most accomplished orbiter, the champion of the shuttle fleet. Discovery flew on 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million kilometers (150 million miles)--more than the other orbiters. It shuttled 184 men and women into space and back, many of whom flew more than once, for a record-setting total crew count of 251.
Because Discovery flew every kind of mission the Space Shuttle was meant to fly, it embodies well the 30-year history of U.S. human spaceflight from 1981 to 2011. Named for renowned sailing ships of exploration, Discovery is preserved as intact as possible as it last flew in 2011 on the 133rd Space Shuttle mission.
NASA transferred Discovery to the Smithsonian in April 2012 after a delivery flight over the nation's capital.
"EVA Astronaut Bruce McCandless II, is using a special power tool to conduct an experiment. His feet are anchored in the mobile foot restraints, which are connected to the Remote Manipulator System's (RMS) End Effector. The Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS-01A) serves as a test subject for McCandless's experiment. The SPAS-01A is located in the center of the open cargo bay. Behind him is the protective cradle for the Westar VI satellite."
NASA astronaut Michael Barratt, Expedition 20 flight engineer, conducts a Surface, Water and Air Biocharacterization (SWAB) water sampling from the Potable Water Dispenser (PWD) in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. SWAB uses advanced molecular techniques to comprehensively evaluate microbes onboard the space station, including pathogens (organisms that may cause disease). This study will allow an assessment of the risk of microbes to the crew and the spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
Follow the "Sailing With NASA" blog and the ET-134 journey:
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.
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This image shows an aerial view of space shuttle tank ET-138 as it rolls out at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana.
Commemorating 37 years of successful tank deliveries, NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company will hold a ceremony on Thursday, July 8, at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to rollout the final external tank for the last space shuttle flight.
The last external tank scheduled to fly on a shuttle mission was completed on June 25 by Lockheed Martin workers at Michoud. The tank, designated ET-138, will travel on a wheeled transporter one mile to the Michoud barge dock. It will be accompanied by the Storyville Stompers, a traditional area brass band, and hundreds of handkerchief-waving employees in typical New Orleans fashion and spirit during the ceremony. ET-138 will then travel on a 900-mile sea journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will support shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 launch.
Michoud Space Systems workers, of Lockheed Martin Corporation, Littleton, Colo., have delivered 135 flight tanks to NASA during the 25 years of flying the space shuttle.
Learn more:
www.nasa.gov/topics/shuttle_station/features/et138_rollou...
Retired in May 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour was ferried to Los Angeles on 21 September 2012, moved through city streets from the airport to Exposition Park on 12-14 October 2012, and put on display on 30 October 2012. After having seen the moves a few weeks earlier, I am visiting Endeavour again, on the second full day of the exhibit, Halloween.
Endeavour will be kept in this temporary exhibit space, Samuel Oschin Pavilion, until 2017, when the permanent Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center is planned to open, and Endeavour is to be displayed there in the launch configuration complete with boosters and external fuel tank.
Detail of the rear end.
The vertical stabilizer works just like the one on a conventional airplane, allowing vertical stability and steering while descending through air. The rudder can open both left and right to act as speed brakes.
At the base of the vertical stabilizer, a rectangular hatch contains a drag chute inside; the hatch is blown open and the chute deployed when the shuttle lands, to shorten the landing roll and decrease brake wear. Endeavour was the first shuttle built with this feature, and it was retrofitted into other orbiters.
The large nozzles are for the SSMEs (Space Shuttle Main Engines). The engines themselves have been removed from Endeavour, as they will be re-used in NASA's next space vehicle project, Space Launch System (SLS).
The upper side nozzle, mounted on a pod, is the right side Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS). Each orbiter has a pair of OMSs, which are used to enter orbit, maneuver, and to de-orbit for return to Earth. The OMS carries its own toxic hydrazine fuel supply; the fuel tank has been removed to make Endeavour safe for exhibit. The OMS pod assemblies are removed and serviced after each flight, and often got swapped between different orbiters; on Endeavour today, the right OMS was originally built for Discovery, while the left OMS was built for Atlantis, and Endeavour's own OMSs were both lost when they were used on the ill-fated Columbia flight in early 2003.
NASA's Airbus Industries 377SGT-F "Super Guppy"' is the only one left flying! Its cargo compartment is 25 feet tall, 25 feet wide and 111 feet long. It can carry cargo weighing more than 26 tons. acquired by NASA from the European Space Agency under an International Space Station barter agreement. ESA supplied the aircraft to offset the cost to NASA of carrying ESA experiment equipment to the station as part of two future Space Shuttle flights. This Super Guppy is the latest version in a long line of Guppy cargo aircraft used by NASA
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External Tank ET-138 emerges from the test facility at the Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana.
Commemorating 37 years of successful tank deliveries, NASA and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company will hold a ceremony on Thursday, July 8, at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to rollout the final external tank for the last space shuttle flight.
The last external tank scheduled to fly on a shuttle mission was completed on June 25 by Lockheed Martin workers at Michoud. The tank, designated ET-138, will travel on a wheeled transporter one mile to the Michoud barge dock. It will be accompanied by the Storyville Stompers, a traditional area brass band, and hundreds of handkerchief-waving employees in typical New Orleans fashion and spirit during the ceremony. ET-138 will then travel on a 900-mile sea journey to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it will support shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 launch.
Michoud Space Systems workers, of Lockheed Martin Corporation, Littleton, Colo., have delivered 135 flight tanks to NASA during the 25 years of flying the space shuttle.
Learn more:
www.nasa.gov/topics/shuttle_station/features/et138_rollou...
The space shuttle twin solid rocket boosters separate from the orbiter and external tank at an altitude of approximately 24 miles. They descend on parachutes and land in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast, where they are recovered by ships, returned to land, and refurbished for reuse. These images show a typical descent phase and parachute deployment events of the boosters after separation from the tank and orbiter during a shuttle launch.
Image credit: NASA
S86-28889 (14 Feb. 1986) --- Kennedy Space Center Director Richard Smith points out a portion of a solid rocket booster segment to astronaut Sally Ride and to the chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, William P. Rogers. The commission was taken to various booster storage and handling facilities at KSC on Feb. 14, 1986 as part of the failure investigation. Photo credit: NASA
"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)
Highly informative orbiter vehicle information booklet chock full of a wide variety of diagrams, tables, graphs & schematics...and itty bitty print. 174 pages. Dated July 23, 1973.
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
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
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.