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Bonus shot for week 9 of the 52 Weeks of Lego project.
Space Shuttle Discovery is currently on its final mission, delivering equipment to the International Space Station. I had planned to save this shot for the week of the final shuttle mission ever, but all the remaining missions I could find on NASA's website coincide with weeks of important events in my personal life that I would rather showcase, so here it is this week. I missed the launch by a few days, but the mission is still on, so it's still a current event.
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 61B (STS-31) through 81N (STS-72). By FY 1989 they hoped to get the promised 24 flights a year - 20 from KSC and 4 from Vandenberg. Ironically, Discovery which was dedicated to VAFB and would have flown only four flights a year turned out to be the fleet leader at the end of the shuttle program with 39 missions.
August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 61I (STS-41) through 71C (STS-46), including Mission 62B (STS-2V). Note that flights 61I, K and L as well as 71B are out of sequence, and that had this schedule been kept, 61I and 62B would have seen two shuttles in orbit at the same time. August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
I built this model many years back. It's the 1/200 scale model that snaps together. I painted this using some actual shuttle pictures to give it some realism. I'm not too sure about the reason for the wavy horizontal lines in the picture.
S86-26428 (31 Jan. 1986) --- Dozens of cameras and thousands of eyes focus on President Ronald Reagan (out of frame at left) during the 51-L memorial services Jan. 31 on the mall at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). The photograph was taken from special bleachers quickly erected to accommodate hundreds of members of the news media. The audience of thousands was largely made up of JSC employees and family and friends of the Challenger crew members who perished four days earlier in the attempted launch of NASA's 25th STS mission. Photo credit: NASA
Many people came out for a view of the shuttle flyover a few weeks back in Sacramento. This weekend the shuttle will be moving along the streets of Los Angeles and Inglewood on Friday and Saturday.
The light for the flyover in Sacramento was very bad, unfortunately, with the sun behind the shuttle from this angle
Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
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Out of this world public domain images from NASA. All original images and many more can be found from the NASA Image Library
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: www.rawpixel.com/board/418580/nasa
Lego Technic Model #8480 - Space Shuttle
Close up of the cockpit.
Pictures were taken as a record of my childhood as these model were found in the loft boxed but assembled.
Pima Air and Space Museum
Lockheed Space Operations Company Crew Jacket
Lockheed was awarded the contract for NASA Space Shuttle launching and landing services in 1983. Lockheed also designed and produced the external fuel tanks and various thermal protection products used on the Space Shuttle.
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 71D (STS-47) through 71H (STS-51), including Mission 72A (STS-3V). August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
Didn't bring an even remotely appropriate lens for this, but what the heck - use the camera you have!
November 1985 plan for space shuttle flights Mission 61B (STS-31) through 81N (STS-72). August 1988 was the latest they had flights planned, although the manifest was issued monthly, meaning there could be a December 1985 and January 1986 manifest lurking around. This was the latest such plan prior to Challenger that I could find.
Cape Canaveral onlookers wish fair winds to Space Shuttle Discovery as she rides off into the sunset. Er, sunrise.
A little twist :)
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