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Space Shuttle Challenger comes in for landing at Edwards Air Force base, CA on April 9, 1983. Scanned from a slide, hence the poor quality.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise does a flyby around NYC landmarks before landing at JFK Airport. It will be put on display at the Intrepid Museum
A view of the 'standard' Lego designed tail fin & with a wedge-plate built rudder that looks terrible and is not harmonious with the clean and integrated look of the rest the of the model.
6" in diameter. Cast aluminum--it's light a lighter shotput or a heavy softball. Supposedly something on the space shuttles was made of the same thing.
Sally's face and neck is pretty much finished unless I add more "warmth" to it later. I started on her hair which because of her perm I painted a light brown according to the highlights in her photo of the various waves that her hair follows. As I color her hair a dark umber brown I can use this pattern to create the highlights. Time spent on this step, about an hour.
When the main engines ignite at T-6 seconds, listen to the cacophony of camera shutters all around me. Beyond the cheering and clapping, the sheer density of cameras actuating around me was positively noisy.
Another oddity here is the fact that the audio from NASA TV was being piped over a PA behind me, which included launch sounds. Hence, there is "launch sound" that roughly coincides with the events seen in the video. The actual sound from the launch took over 30 seconds to get to us and was considerably more intense and complex than what got broadcast over the speakers.
This video was taken with my P&S camera just sitting on top of my backpack while I shot over it with my long lens. Hence the lack of level, framing, tracking, etc.
NASA Shuttle Bus- April 30th, 2014-
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...
Soviets designed a dedicated An-225 heavy lifter for the purpose of carrying their 'Buran' space shuttle craft.
Americans had modified a Boeing 'Jumbo-Jet' for the same purpose. Note two additional vertical fins to keep a satisfactory level of directional control when the plane carries a shuttle load on its back. An-225 was from scratch designed with them.
On a recent trip to Florida, we went to see the launch of the Space Shuttle from Cape Canaveral. Even as an astronomy buff, it was more impressive than I expected it to be. We were a full six miles away (the closest we could get, even with pre-purchased passes), and the sound pressure waves from the engines actually shook the risers we were standing on.
N's drawing of the space shuttle, on the launch pad (see the cross?), next to its launch tower, with its big external tank and two smaller rockets. Ready to take off! Just needs a countdown. See the pilot in the window, ready to steer?
21 years ago, on January 28th, 1986, a classmate of mine came into our chemistry class and told us the space shuttle had exploded just after lift off. Everyone was in a daze the entire day and I remember going home, turning on the TV hoping for news that they had found the crew and that they had escaped the tragedy.
The bad news continued when we all learned that explosion was almost obviously imminent and that people had warned against the proceeding with the launch under poor weather conditions.
Gene Krantz, one of the flight directors at NASA during Apollo gave his flight controllers a speech after the loss of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee in Apollo I. He said that no matter how bad things got with Apollo I, no one stood up and said "STOP!" Never again did he want that to happen.
Tragically, with Challenger and Columbia, the people who stood up and said "STOP!" were dismissed and forteen people needlessly and avoidably lost their lives in the noble exploration of creation.
This image was taken from the NASA web site. Please go there to see more about the ship and people lost this day 21 years ago. www.nasa.gov.
89211215 :Piction ID--Space Station---Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---- Digitization of this image made possible by a generous grant from the NHPRC: NHPRC and the San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Space Shuttle Enterprise does a flyby around NYC landmarks before landing at JFK Airport. It will be put on display at the Intrepid Museum