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Circa 1974 Rockwell International artist’s concept depicting an orbit insertion/circularization burn of the Space Shuttle’s Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) engines.
Occasionally/more ‘commonly’ seen as a lithograph. Of course, I can’t find an example in order to provide a Rockwell ‘party line’ caption.
Beautiful artwork by Rockwell International artist supreme, Manuel E. Alvarez.
A mocking/taunting 月亮 can be seen, still out of reach, in the distantly distant distance.
A cropped version of the image, with subtle differences in the markings on the spacecraft, is featured on the cover of the 1988 book “SPACE SHUTTLE”, written by David Baker.
Speaking of out of reach, the U.S. is firmly in the process of losing the “high-ground”…if it hasn’t lost it already:
www.getrevue.co/profile/aj_fi/issues/china-space-news-upd...
And check this out, this enterprising SOB has gone apeshit with a bunch of photos I’ve posted and/or linked to in my postings:
www.redbubble.com/i/photographic-print/Space-Shuttle-s-Or...
“The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's (MSFC) Dynamic Test Stand for Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Tests (MVGVT). The tests marked the first time ever that the entire shuttle complement including Orbiter, External Tank, and Solid Rocket Boosters were vertically mated.”
The above is taken from a very similar image, attributed with a date of 6 October 1978, and linked to below.
Also, the same image, attributed with the date of 6 October 1978:
“The first complete Space Shuttle launch vehicle ever assembled was mated in the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Dynamic Test Stand in October 1978 for the second phase of the ground vibration tests. Here, the orbiter and solid rocket motors are mated to the huge external tank for testing that verified that the Shuttle would perform as predicted during launch.”
So, a very nice photograph, of a quietly historic Space Shuttle Program milestone that…ONE GUESS - that’s right - is LEFT-TO-RIGHT REVERSED. Why not? The ignominious tradition lives on. At least they managed to stumble upon 'right' in other photos of this event.
Lots of nice photos, some pertinent to this one:
forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=35828.240
Credit: NASA Spaceflight Forum website
Also:
www.nasa.gov/feature/40-years-ago-space-shuttle-enterpris...
PictionID:54053550 - Catalog:14_032739 - Title:GD/Astronautics Models Details: Shuttle/Centaur Study - Filename:14_032739.tif - - Images 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
taken at Kennedy Space Center......l think the astronauts were very brave people . but the risk of something going wrong would not be worth taking a chance for me to have a go......l feel so sorry for the families and friends of the astronauts that were killed
This image illustrates NASA's Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS), otherwise known as "glass cockpit." It represents a number of important modifications that have been accomplished on the Orbiter's flight deck. This photo is actually a recent one of the fixed base Space Shuttle mission simulator in the Johnson Space Center's (JSC) Mission Simulation and Training Facility. The fixed base simulator has been outfitted with MEDS to be used by flight crews for training. The Space Shuttle Atlantis is the only Orbiter so far outfitted with MEDS and will fly with the new display system for the first time late this year on STS-101. All of the Orbiters will eventually be outfitted with the new system, which enhances safety on the Orbiter by providing multiple backup display functions and brings the Space Shuttle cockpit displays up to date with technology that is now common in many commercial airliners.
Our flight from Baltimore to Ft Meyers put us 70 miles west of the Kennedy
Space Center on November 16th, and at the exact time of the launch of the
STS-129 Space Shuttle.
Captain John Goslink called me to bring my camera to the cockpit and get photos of the event, my very first shuttle launch. What a thrill to be at 36,000 feet to see this spectacle! We saw the engines ignite, lighting up like a huge fireball, then watched as the shuttle soared through the cloud layers and speed into the blackness of space. It made its twisting turn right about our altitude...then disappeared into space.
photo courtesy of Jim Hawkins
MDW Flight Attendant
Space Shuttle Endeavour as it is flying over the Los Angeles coastline just north of LAX, 21 Sep 2012.
PictionID:54056228 - Catalog:14_032959 - Title:GD/Astronautics Models Details: Space Shuttle/Reusable Centaur Model - Filename:14_032959.tif - - - Images 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 Discovery, on the back of a 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, passes the Boeing office in Arlington, Va., during its flyby of Washington, D.C., on its way to the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center.
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Space Shuttle Columbia being ferried back to Kennedy Space Center on 2001-Mar-5. This was as it passed over Tallahasee FL after Columbia was refurbished in California. Unfortunately, Columbia disintegrated during re-entry less than 2 years later. These photos were shot with hand held 500mm lens, hence the motion blur.
Space Shuttle Columbia being ferried back to Kennedy Space Center on 2001-Mar-5. This was as it passed over Tallahasee FL after Columbia was refurbished in California. Unfortunately, Columbia disintegrated during re-entry less than 2 years later. These photos were shot with hand held 500mm lens, hence the motion blur.
PictionID:55777629 - Catalog:Space Shuttle Details: Space Shuttle Program; Charts and Design Concepts 1980 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037851.tif - ---- Images 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
PictionID:54463840 - Catalog:1970s Convair Space Plane Concept - Title:Array - Filename:1970s Convair Space Plane Concept 03.jpg - - Images 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
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...
I feel a bit sad when I see an image like this. It reminds me that we have come to the end of an era for space exploration. But more importantly, it is another example of how we are losing our technology leadership in the world. From now on, we will pay Russia for rides into space on their launch vehicles.
This last shuttle flight would have been a major news story 20 years ago, but it was barely mentioned amid the usual wash of dumbed-down national "news" stories which tends to focus on celebrity news and baby stories. Image courtesy NASA.
PictionID:56251553 - Catalog:14_039281 - Title:Space Shuttle Details: Space Shuttle; Recoverable Booster Model Date: 02/05/1970 - Filename:14_039281.JPG - - 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
At 11:29 on July 8, 2011 a 30 year program of space exploration enters into an uncertain era. "For the foreseeable future, the US, the first country to put a man on the moon, will rely on Russia to fly astronauts to the space station at a cost of 30 million dollars a seat." Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said, "The space shuttle demonstrates America's leadership in space, and for us to abandon that in favor of nothing is a mistake of strategic proportions." One Million people gather on the banks of the Cape for this bittersweet moment. Their was a very low cloud cover and everyone was expecting it to be scraped with any other launch it probably would have been postponed. But with 10 minutes to launch the Safety Range Office gives it a GO.
Upon the return of Atlantis thousands of NASA employees will be laid off. This launch was a true tribute to them. One million people watched this launch from the Titusville area.
We were not on the Causeway for this lift-off, as we had done previously. We could not find it in our hearts to miss this. This photo was taken from Haulover Canal on the banks of Mosquito Lagoon. Not a great photo but what a memory. This was about 9 or 10 miles away. Thanks for stopping by. To the NASA employees....you did an outstanding job.
As you will have seen from the slides that I have been adding to the stream lately the images have been a fairly eclectic mix or Railways and Buses. They all came together in a case full of slides I bought a few years ago and this was also in there.
I have cropped it quite a lot so its a bit hazy but the details on the slide mount state '747 and Space Shuttle Flying overLondon Heathrow on the 5th of June 1983'.
Image from a slide in my collection by an unknown photographer.
“Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, getting his turn in the manned maneuvering unit (MMU) like those used by five other astronauts this year, prepares to dock with a spinning Westar VI satellite. Gardner used a large tool called the apogee kick motor capture device (ACD) to enter the nozzle of a spent Westar engine and stabilize the communications spacecraft sufficiently to capture it for return to Earth in the cargo bay of the Discovery.”
I couldn’t find the photograph, let alone with a caption, so the above is taken from that associated with a similar photograph of this particular ‘docking’ sequence.
Note the photograph’s numbering ‘prefix’…S19, i.e., “STS-19”. Pertinent discussion regarding such/similar:
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000943.html
Credit: collectSPACE website
The photograph is signed by fellow EVA partner & crew member, Joe Allen.
Multiple surface handling ‘indentations’, obvious when viewed obliquely, are not evident when viewed directly.
Finally, just for sh!ts & giggles, I dare you to search on "STS-51A" at the following site...I dare you:
P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Cockpit der Atlantis -> schön zu sehen sind hier die Hitzeschutzkacheln rund um die Scheiben
A LEGO Technic scale model of the spaceshuttle. It has 8 motorized functions and comes with instructions for both a PF and a PU version. More information can be found on jeroenottens.com
The crawler-transporters are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport spacecraft from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. They were originally used to transport the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs. They were then used to transport Space Shuttles from 1981 to 2011. The crawler-transporters carry vehicles on the Mobile Launcher Platform, and after each launch return to the pad to take the platform back to the VAB.
Kennedy Space Center has been using the same two crawlers, nicknamed "Hans" and "Franz", since their initial delivery in 1965. In their lifetime, they have traveled more than 5,500 km (3,400 mi),]
PictionID:53765740 - Catalog:14_032247 - Title:GD/Astronautics Displays Details: Satellite Booster Display Date: 10/16/1970 - Filename:14_032247.tif - Images 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
This image, taken by Van Wideman, shows a group of skydivers making a jump with the Space Shuttle Discovery launching in the background-- and it was on April 24, 1990, when Discovery took the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit!
My blog post about this (with more details): blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/11/diving...
Van Wideman on Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=687039863
My flickr contact Grant and I had lunch on June 10, 2016 at the historic Bomber Restaurant in Ypsilanti, Michigan (good food). The Bomber's name relates to World War II, when workers from the nearby Willow Run B-24 Liberator Bomber plant would frequent the restaurant. Today, numerous model airplanes hang from the ceiling, such as the Space Shuttle and its transporter seen here.
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PictionID:53765785 - Catalog:14_032250 - Title:GD/Astronautics Displays Details: Satellite Booster Display Date: 10/16/1970 - Filename:14_032250.tif - Images 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
PictionID:55777656 - Catalog:Space Shuttle Details: Space Shuttle Program; Charts and Design Concepts 1980 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037853.tif - ---- Images 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
PictionID:55777643 - Catalog:Space Shuttle Details: Space Shuttle Program; Charts and Design Concepts 1980 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037852.tif - ---- Images 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
PictionID:53765770 - Catalog:14_032249 - Title:GD/Astronautics Displays Details: Satellite Booster Display Date: 10/16/1970 - Filename:14_032249.tif - Images 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
In the upper levels of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Discovery is moved toward high bay 3 where the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters are already stacked on the mobile launcher platform.
Discovery is set to launch on mission STS-119 carrying the final starboard truss, S6, in the assembly of the International Space Station.
Image credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller