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Thousands of mirrors, called heliostats, direct the sun’s energy onto a receiver, which was built using expertise gained from constructing the space shuttle main engine. The NASA spinoff receiver sits on top of a 550-foot tower.
For more information about this technology or any other spinoff, please visit spinoff.nasa.gov/.
Image Credit: SolarReserve
Watching Endeavour wend her way up and into the clouds was a very poignant and bittersweet moment- this bird's final flight. It was a chance of a lifetime to see and I am SO happy to be able to share the experience in some small part with you all!
(Taken from Banana River VIP Shuttle Launch viewing area)
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
Preserved Clear Lake City, Houston, United States 29 Apr 2014 at the Space Center Houston with a replica Space Shuttle mounted to it (29°33'7.42"N 95° 5'49.84"W)
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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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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
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 :)
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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On display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's UDVAR-HAZY CENTER at the Washington Dulles International Airport
Hand held 5 exposure HDR
A LEGO Technic scale model of the spaceshuttle. It has 8 motorized functions and comes with instructions for both a PF and a PU version. More information can be found on jeroenottens.com
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.
“Orbiter 099 upper forward fuselage assembly, Fitcheck - Station no. 1 - Building 294, Palmdale Final Assembly Facility.”
For painfully obvious reasons, the transformation/construction of this vehicle is oft-reproduced:
www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/01/1983-1986-missions-histor...
forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=33194.0
Both above credit: NASA Spaceflight website/forum
Good timeline info, if correct:
www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/c...
And I'm sure there’s plenty more.
PictionID:54463868 - Catalog:1971 NASA Space Shuttle Interim Concept - Title:Array - Filename:1971 NASA Space Shuttle Interim Concept.jpg - - Images from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection. The processing, cataloging and digitization of these images has been made possible by a generous National Historical Publications and Records grant from the National Archives and Records Administration---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
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
A LEGO Technic scale model of the spaceshuttle. It has 8 motorized functions and comes with instructions for both a PF and a PU version. More information can be found on jeroenottens.com
Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1989. I had an old Pentax K-1000 with a super cheap long 500mm lens for this shot. I would love to find the negative as this is a scan of a 5x7” print.
The primary payload, Galileo/Jupiter spacecraft and attached Inertial Upper Stage (IUS), was deployed six hours, 30 minutes into the flight. IUS stages fired, placing Galileo on trajectory for six-year trip to Jupiter via gravitational boosts from Venus and Earth and possible observational brushes with asteroids Gaspra and Ida. Secondary payloads included Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet (SSBUV) experiment carried in cargo bay, and in crew cabin, Growth Hormone Crystal Distribution (GHCD); Polymer Morphology (PM), Sensor Technology Experiment (STEX); Mesoscale Lightning Experiment (MLE); IMAX camera; Shuttle Student Involvement Program (SSIP) experiment that investigated ice crystal formation in zero gravity; and ground-based Air Force Maui Optical Site (AMOS) experiment.