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Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104) rules in her new home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center.
For more information;
www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/a...
Manufacturer: Boeing Rocketdyne
Date: 2004
Country of Origin: United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 9ft 9in. x 13ft 6in. x 7ft 8in., 14125lb. (297.18 x 411.48 x 233.68cm, 6407.1kg)
Materials:
Nozzle, partly steel; throat, copper; injector plate, steel; pipes along nozzle, non-ferrous metal; hoops around nozzle, non-ferrous metal; bulbous joint, on main pipe, on powerhead, steel; 6-inch pipe, steel; smaller pipes, primarily aluminum, some with diagonal yellow plastic wrappings; red rubber pipe holders on both sides of powerhead; impeller or pump, on left, non-ferrous metal; equi-distant nuts around this impeller, non-ferrous metal; identical impeller on right, steel; clear covering over cutaways of both impellers, plexiglass; largest, curved, main pipe around top of powerhead, from back of left impeller to back of right impeller, steel; low, V-shaped large pipe at bottom of powerhead, non-ferrous; sphere under lower right of powerhead, near right impeller, non-ferrous; black plastic wire protectors on right side of powerhead; large rectangle protruding at angle on right side of powerhead, with many electrical cables leading into it, with black and white plastic insulated wires, some wires with braided, silver, non-ferrous metal insulation; others exposed; some with white plastic covering and soft, fabric insulation; transporter, overall, steel
This is the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME). Three SSME's plus two Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) power the reusable Space Shuttle. Each SSME produces 375,000 lbs of thrust or a total of 1,125,000 lbs and uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as propellants.
This SSME is made of up of components of SSMEs that have flown into space. The flights have included the first four Shuttle missions, the second Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, the missions that launched the Magellan and Galileo space probes, and the John Glenn flight. The engine was donated by Rocketdyne to the Smithsonian in 2004.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
August 1989, Columbia on the Launch Pad.
Ektachrome 100, digitized with Hasselblad 907x CFV II 50c and Rodenstock Radagon 4/75 D
An SR-71 Blackbird sits in the Boeing Aviation Hangar of the Udvar-Hazy Center, while the Space Shuttle Discovery looks on from the McDonnell Space Hangar.
digital art -- both original shots (here used as layers) were done by my dear friend Renate on a ferry to Oslo last year. just using some filters & overlapping tools beside changing the contrasts (using "photo Impact x3" as usual)
My office is right by the Caltech trash pile. Lots of interesting things turn up there. Today in the garbage was a shipping crate with "SPACE SHUTTLE PAYLOAD" stencils and many "Extremely delicate space hardware" stickers.
The Space Shuttle lives on through the RS-25 engines that will be launching SLS and Orion with astronauts back to the Moon.
#artemis #spaceshuttle #space
Space Shuttle Discovery passing over Dulles International Airport before doing a fly-over of Washington DC.
A scientific experiment created by Henry E. Lackey High School students is ready to blast off July 8 on the last flight of the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135). Also flying on the Atlantis will be a mission patch designed by Nathan Freeman, a junior at La Plata High School.
Lackey’s team will conduct identical experiments – one on the shuttle and one at school – that compare the structural differences between Arabidopsis thaliana, a small flowering plant, germinated on earth and in space, and to isolate the effects of microgravity on germination. The experiment, “Physiological effects of microgravity on germination and growth of Arabidopsis thaliana,” is one of 11 nationwide that will be conducted by astronauts during the final Atlantis flight.
Lackey’s experiment will fly aboard NASA’s STS-135 mission, which will dock with the International Space Station. The experiment is part of a national STEM program called the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP).
Calling the space shuttle experiments a “way cool program,” Jeff Goldstein, center director of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE), said the placement of the Lackey experiment on the flight is a “stunningly historic opportunity” for students and Charles County Public Schools.
Lackey’s team, composed of Courtney Buckman, Charles Campbell, Kristin Conyers, Devon Johnson, Christine Kim, Chinyere McKoy-Nwachukwu, Sam Paras, Sydney Scott, Paul Warren, and Deborah Cline, is under the direction of teachers Lara North and Romulo Gabriel. Students started on the proposal in March and learned on June 1 during a presentation ceremony at Maurice J. McDonough High School that their experiment was the first-place winner. Other finalists were teams from Piccowaxen and Milton M. Somers middle schools.
My good friend from Estonia joined my wife and me as we explored the final frontier at Kennedy Space Center Feb. 11, 2018, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Photo by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
An enlarged version of the Servicing Mission 4 patch hangs above the engineers and controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center's Space Telescope Operations Control Center while they await the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 11, 2009.
Atlantis carried a crew of seven to the Hubble Space Telescope for upgrades and repairs, known as Servicing Mission 4.
Credit: NASA
A human adventure, the exhibition.
The national museum of science and technology
Stockholm, Sweden 2011.
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.
NASA Shuttle Bus- April 30th, 2014- The tail section.
We live right outside of NASA here in Houston, They retired the 747 used to ferry the Space Shuttles after their flights. They retired the Jumbo Bus and hauled it in pieces to its final resting spot at the Space Museum on the NASA Grounds. They had to move all the pieces at night and it came right by my neighborhood last night! What an event They had everything shut down! It as quite a sight. It was stopped here for 30 minutes while utility companies moved overhead wires at an upcoming intersection, making for a great photo-op!
for the full story... go to www.chron.com/default/article/Clear-Lake-highway-set-to-c...
Still playing with the infrared action in Photoshop...
This photo shows a pre-launch Space Shuttle Atlantis at night.
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.
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.
The space shuttle Atlantis, as seen from NASA's Banana Creek viewing site. This is where astronaut families and guests see launches.
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.