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Space Shuttle pin badge and coin, keepsakes from a fantastic trip to Cape Kennedy Space Centre 6 or 7 years back!
Named as such because Elton John is performing is last UK concert ever as I process and post this while watching Glastonbury.
I realy have no idea, what that could be!
The shot was taken, while I and my DAD were walking with Chipsi!
NO FAKE
Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) lands at Washington Dulles International Airport, Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Sterling, Va. Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA’s shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles. NASA will transfer Discovery to the National Air and Space Museum to begin its new mission to commemorate past achievements in space and to educate and inspire future generations of explorers. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers)
I had some time during the day while at NASA to visit the Kennedy Space Center. Inside was the insanely huge Saturn V rocket. It's one of those things that would hurt like hell if you dropped it on your toe.
The shuttle only has one more launch before it is forever mothballed, like this... The final launch of the Atlantis is on July 8, the first day of my 40th revolution around the sun. That's kinda cool I think...
- Trey Ratcliff
Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
As 3D beings inhabiting a three-dimensional world, our eyes, unfortunately, grant us access to only two dimensions. The depth we perceive is a clever illusion, a byproduct of evolution positioning our eyes on the front of our faces. However, when we place an object or scene within a glass cube, we catch a tantalizing glimpse, an inkling of the third dimension. This subtle hint surprises and captivates our minds, endowing the object with even greater fascination. Yet, it is also an illusion.
I did it! I finally managed to combine my favorite electonic dance music artist with my favorite toy (LEGO). Yay me! I know what you are thinking......what a dork! :-)!
The space shuttle Endeavour is seen on launch pad 39a after the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure (RSS), Sunday, May 15, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. During the mission, Endeavour and the STS-134 crew will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. Launch is targeted for Monday, May 16 at 8:56 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Editor's note: happy Friday, Flickr friends! While we can't all get this kind of sky view, hope you get to enjoy the waning gibbous moon in the skies over Earth this weekend.
This image taken by an astronaut aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-103 shows a panoramic view of Earth at moonrise.
Image and caption credit: NASA
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What a great memory! September 21, 2012.
We were stepping out of the Star Wars ride at Disneyland, looked up to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour fly over on it's Boeing 747 transport, along with it's escort plane, to it's final display location at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Lucky timing!
The NASA family lost seven of its own on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when a booster engine failed, causing the Shuttle Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch.
In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, the Challenger crew takes a break during countdown training at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Left to right are Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; and Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist.
Image Credit: NASA
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The main landing gear of the Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down on the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility to complete the STS-86 mission. Touchdown occurred at 5:55:09 p.m. (EDT), October 6, 1997. Onboard were astronauts James D. Wetherbee, Michael J. Bloomfield, Wendy B. Lawrence, Scott F. Parazynski, Vladimir G. Titov, C. Michael Foale and Jean-Loup J. M. Chretien. Chretien and Titov represent the French Space Agency (CNES) and the Russian Space Agency (RSA), respectively.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts086-s-015
Date: October 6, 1997
The space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft separate on March 7, 2011 after an aggregate of 12 astronauts and cosmonauts worked together for over a week. The area below is the southwestern coast of Morocco in the northern Atlantic. During a post undocking fly-around, the crew members aboard the two spacecraft collected a series of photos of each other's vehicle.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: iss026-E-032252
Date: March 7, 2011
Space shuttle Discovery, July 4th 2006.
This was my 1st launch ever, it brought tears to my eyes as it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen :)
On display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's UDVAR-HAZY CENTER at the Washington Dulles International Airport
Hand held 5 exposure HDR
1:37 (minifig) scale orbiter
This is version 1.x of a space shuttle orbiter made with 100% LEGO bricks. The exact scale is about 1:36.7, and this was arrived at based on the brick-built hatch, which is the first component I built. It has many features including:
* retractable landing gear
* poseable elevons and split rudder
* poseable SSMEs
* opening payload bay doors
* poseable Canadarm and Ku-band antenna
* room for payloads (almost to scale) including the OBSS
* room for minifig inside spacehab tunnel
* detailed flight deck and mid deck with room for minifigs; includes removable roof and side panel for playability
* operable side hatch and airlock hatches
* removable forward RCS pod and OMS pods
* crew compartment lighting
* Brick built nose countours and crew compartment windows
In version 2 I aim to motorize some components and improve some sections including the vertical stabilizer (which is a bit wide) and OMS pods (which are slightly oversize)
Another baby build that got knocked out of my Ideas project due to an IP clash. The back actually opens - check it out on Blockheads.
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Space shuttle Atlantis is seen as it launches from pad 39A on Friday, July 8, 2011, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch of Atlantis, STS-135, is the final flight of the shuttle program, a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Hard to believe it's been 10 years since the last time the Shuttle lifted off on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. What a rush to see that bird leap off the pad on a pillar of flame! Thanks to all the folks at STScI, GSFC and elsewhere who keep the mission going and glad to see all the great results.
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At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour is powered up for one of the final times as workers continue to prepare the orbiter for display at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, CA.
So, the NASA "photographic history & archive section/department…individual" (if such/one even exists), and the “NASA on The Commons” buffoons stumbled upon this striking photo, probably/possibly here:
images.nasa.gov/details/81PC0758
and uploaded it today (January 29, 2025), accompanied by the following pablum:
“With the desert sky behind it, the Space Shuttle Columbia and 747/Shuttle Carrier Aircraft are poised for the return flight to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After the successful first mission of the Space Shuttle, the orbiter was returned from the desert by a piggyback flight where it landed at KSC. Preparations now begin for the second launch.”
Not surprisingly, the above is a standard mindless, copy/paste of a clueless, vague & wrong description. This is obviously a preflight…to any flight, photo of OV-102, likely taken between March 20 - 24, 1979, during the vehicle’s original delivery to KSC.
I wonder how the NASA stooges came up with the photo ID (KSC-81PC-0758) & date in the first place??? 🎯 or 🎲 maybe?
Further, comments were of course disabled for their posting of the image. We wouldn't want constructive criticism or the ability to set the record straight permitted, now would we?
Good grief.
Update: Coincidentally...or not, as of the posting day (January 29, 2025), of this image, “NASA on The Commons” on Flickr went “buh-bye”, for a brief period at least. It's back - in all its "glory", YAY. However, the photo is no longer. Perpetual buffoonery. But hey, at least it's still here:
images.nasa.gov/details/81PC0758
But I digress. In (I’m hoping) proper context, the photo, amongst others, is here:
www.nasa.gov/history/45-years-ago-space-shuttle-columbia-...
Lastly, prompted by Flickr user Dikkie Dick’s comment, I took a closer look at the image. There appear to be a row of hangar doors visible at the lower left, beneath the wing of the SCA. Through my conscientious & earnest research, I came across a photo (of another SCA/Orbiter combo), with similar doors in the background, which would seem to support this photo having been taken at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards Air Force Base. Additional stellar research (IMHO) then revealed the combo to be (IMHO II) positioned/photographed at the entrance to the “Weight and Balance Hangar”.
The “Weight and Balance Hangar”:
“Perhaps the most unique of the facilities along Contractor's Row is Building 1830, commonly referred to as the Weight and Balance Hangar. This 300 feet by 400 feet clear-span aircraft hangar is equipped with a large, flush-mounted floor-installed, calibrated scale system to determine an aircraft's gross weight as well as provide data to compute its center of gravity. This capability is available for nearly any size aircraft. The system comprises four tables-arranged in a cruciform pattern each with a 300,000 pound capacity and capable of measuring in 20 pound increments.
The center of gravity computation is performed on the largest of these platforms which provides for longitudinal leveling of aircraft via an electrically controlled vertical adjustment through a range of 69 inches.”
Above, along with the photo I reference, at/from:
www.aftc.af.mil/Portals/55/Documents/Historian/E-Books/Ed...
Credit: Air Force Test Center (AFTC) website
Although I may very well be wrong, it’s better than the crap the NASA dolts attributed to it.
I have been building transformers lego models for two decades now, constantly growing my collection, there were always one thing left to do figure out.
How to build a combiner ?
We all know the limitations through weight on our models versus what we would want from certain bricks and their clutchpowers.
Bruticus and the combaticons were on my wishlist for a long time, so i have been working on those models over the past months, first working out each individual character and then the combine mode.
It needs still a support stand, which also serves as display stand, just to keep the weight up, he is very heavy, standing tall around 60cm.
Instructions available soon.
The crew of the STS 61-A mission egress the Orbiter after landing. Astronaut Henry W. Hartsfield Jr., 61-A mission commander, shakes hands with George W.S. Abbey, Director of Flight Crew Operations at JSC, as the rest of the crew descends the steps. From left to right are Guion S. Bluford, Jr., James F. Buchli, Steven R. Nagel, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Wubbo J. Ockels, Ernst Messerschmid, and Reinhard Furrer.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 61a-s-140
Date: November 6, 1985
Flanked and supported by the twin booster rockets, the unpainted main fuel tank as used on the Space Shuttle Orbiter stands at the entrance to the Kennedy Space Center's 'Atlantis' experience as a legacy to those missions launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The three attachment points for the Shuttle can be clearly seen here on the tank - originally in white but then to save weight the tanks remained unpainted on later mission launches.
DSCN0144
The space shuttle Endeavour is seen on launch pad 39a after the rollback of the Rotating Service Structure (RSS), Thursday, April 28, 2011, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. During the 14-day mission, Endeavour and the STS-134 crew will deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) and spare parts including two S-band communications antennas, a high-pressure gas tank and additional spare parts for Dextre. Launch is targeted for Friday, April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)