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With this specialized car by Airstream the shuttle crews have been driven to the launch pads where they entered the shuttle before the flight.
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, US
A massive crowd gathered at the Griffith Observatory to see the Space Shuttle Endeavor's final flight.
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/.
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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)
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.
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)
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
This distant 70mm image shows the Space Shuttle Columbia clearing the tower at Launch Pad 39B, at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), on its way toward a ten-day Earth-orbital mission with a crew of five NASA astronauts and a Canadian payload specialist.
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Image Number: sts052-s-051
Date: October 22, 1992
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 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.
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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 :)
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TOUCHDOWN! THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ENDS. After 135 missions, Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center to end STS-135 and the 30 year space shuttle program.
On display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's UDVAR-HAZY CENTER at the Washington Dulles International Airport
Hand held 5 exposure HDR
For the Utatan Personal Project. Enjoy!
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We moderns tend to take the night sky for granted. We know it is there while we sit comfortably at home going about our daily lives but we don't pay it much attention. And if we did, our towns and cities create vast domes of artificial light such that the splendor of the stars and planets is often washed out and we are puzzled at what the ancients found so interesting about it. We forget that for them, reading the sky was a matter of survival.
Perhaps our modern life has made reading the celestial heavens unnecessary. We have calendars and computer clocks to keep track of time. We don't grow our food, but let the farmers take care of that. We need not amuse ourselves with the telling of stories to explain the stars; we merely turn on the television and watch the Hollywood stars amuse us.
Even after Columbus sailed into the Americas, Europe still believed the Earth the centre of the Universe. In 1543 a Polish Catholic cleric named Nicolaus Copernicus made the daring proposal that the motion of the planets could be explained just as easily with the Sun in the centre and the Earth and other planets revolving around it.
Over the next century the Church could not suppress the evidence that Galileo, Kepler, and Newton used to topple the geocentrists. Indeed, there is some poetic justice that it took an apple to seal the fate of the old geocentric picture of the Universe.
This revolution in cosmology freed the European mind from the shackles of Medievalism. That we can throw satellites into Earth orbit, land space craft precisely on Mars and measure the age of the Universe is the legacy of the Copernican Revolution.
The one constant theme in all mythologies is the sky. Perhaps there is an innate human longing to understand who we are, where we came from. It seems obvious that those questions spring from our looking out at the stars, because ultimately our origins can be understood only by looking back into the Cosmos.
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TOUCHDOWN! THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM ENDS. After 135 missions, Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center to end STS-135 and the 30 year space shuttle program.
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I'm not a particular collector of space related diecast models but will sometimes dabble if I find them interesting enough. I found a couple of three vehicle sets in a Chinese bazaar whilst out in Spain and the contents instantly looked recognisable. They are exactly the same ones offered at Smyths Toys in the UK thus making me think they were made by Xin Yu Toys. A look on their website reveals they AREN'T made by that Chinese toy company and unfortunately its packaging only gave the name of the importer so for the time being i've no idea who actually made this Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Quite a small casting in the same vein as the old Corgi Juniors equivalent and not featuring any opening cargo doors, basic but fun.
Mint and boxed.
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.
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.
NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft No. 911, with the space shuttle orbiter Endeavour securely mounted atop its fuselage, taxies to the runway to begin the ferry flight from Rockwell's Plant 42 at Palmdale, California, where the orbiter was built, to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. At Kennedy, the space vehicle was processed and launched on orbital mission STS-49, which landed at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility (now Armstrong Flight Research Center), Edwards, California. NASA 911, the second modified 747 that went into service in November 1990, has special support struts atop the fuselage and internal strengthening to accommodate the added weight of the orbiters.
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Image Number: EC91-221-8
Date: May 2, 1991
The space shuttle Discovery is seen from the International Space Station as the two orbital spacecraft accomplish their relative separation on March 7 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.
Image credit: NASA
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