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The Space Shuttle at US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. Look at bottom left, you can see my wife walking, gives you sense of size of this exhibit.
Not enough room in the front for a nice nose shot because it's crammed into a pavilion ,and there's a 45 minute cattle line to stand on a platform .
flea market near Mansfield OH a while ago note the vintage of the cars
Tenuous Link: space available..... something that could go into space if it had wings wasn't dented and wasn't on top of a flea market
Last flight of the shuttle "Endeavour" as it passed over Vandenberg AFB, Santa Barbara County this morning atop a modified Boeing 747, September 21, 2012.
PictionID:45176928 - Catalog:14_016991 - Title:Space Shuttle Details: Mid-fuselage - Filename:14_016991.TIF - - - - - Image 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
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)
NASA Industry ACTS STS-51 Badge
55mm diameter
Circa 1993
STS-51 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission that launched the Advanced Communications Technology Satellite ACTS in September 1993. The flight also featured the deployment and retrieval of the SPAS-ORFEUS satellite and its IMAX camera, which captured spectacular footage of Discovery in space. A spacewalk was also performed during the mission to evaluate tools and techniques for the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission later that year. -info taken from wikipedia
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.