View allAll Photos Tagged spaceshuttle
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.
Copyright © 2012 OffdaLipp Images
This image is protected under the United States and International Copyright laws and may not be downloaded, reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without written permission
PictionID:55777698 - Catalog:Space Shuttle Details: Space Shuttle Program; Charts and Design Concepts 1980 - Title:Array - Filename:14_037856.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
Published in 1971, before Apollo had flown its final missions, by Golden Gate Junior Books of San Carlos, California. Written by Don Dwiggins and illustrated with art from assorted aerospace contractors who were bidding to build the next generation American spacecraft. This is why the configuration of the vehicles and the style of the illustrations changes from page to page. The artists are not credited, just the firms they worked for.
A nostalgic look back, at the Space Shuttle and Space Station that we could have had, but for the bean-counters and internationalists in DC.
Space Shuttle Discovery's left side forward reaction control system nozzles. See:
howthingsfly.si.edu/media/shuttle-reaction-control-system
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center /
National Air and Space Museum
Space Shuttle Endeavor makes its final journey to Los Angeles. On it's way, it made two victory laps around San Francisco.
Buran Space shuttle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)
Gorky Park is the central Moscow park, located in the heart of the city
Gorky Park is the capital’s central park, with more than 40 000 visitors on weekdays and 250 000 on weekends and public holidays. Since 2011 the park has been setting new standards, becoming Russia’s first world-class park and a space for recreation, sport, dance and outdoor games. Free entry, Wi-Fi coverage, new zones of contemporary design, a well thought-out events programme and regard for people have transformed Gorky Park into an epicentre of life in the capital, making it one of the main points of attraction for youth, adults and the family alike.
PictionID:43834158 - Catalog:14_008722 - Title:Atlas Details: NASA Layouts - Filename:14_008722.TIF - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:43834173 - Catalog:14_008723 - Title:Atlas Details: NASA Layouts - Filename:14_008723.TIF - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:55773527 - Catalog:GD/Astronautics Charts Details: Space Shuttle Cost Assesment - Title:Array - Filename:14_037544.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
OV-103.Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times.
Time spent in space
365 days, 22 hours, 39 minutes, 33 seconds
Distance travelled
148,221,675 mi (238,539,663 km)[3]
Satellites deployed
31 (including Hubble Space Telescope)
Aerial oblique of Shuttle Landing Facility. Towway - direction S. E. altitude 2,000'.
Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/
Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:55956721 - Catalog:14_038573.tif - Title:GD/Astronautics Details: Space Shuttle Graphics - Filename:14_038573.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
© All rights reserved. Use without permission is illegal
The decommissioned space shuttle Enterprise resides at the Air and Space Museum at Dulles International Airport.
PictionID:53765799 - Catalog:14_032251 - Title:GD/Astronautics Displays Details: Satellite Booster Display Date: 10/16/1970 - Filename:14_032251.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:43834197 - Catalog:14_008725 - Title:Atlas Details: NASA Layouts - Filename:14_008725.TIF - - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
PictionID:53765755 - Catalog:14_032248 - Title:GD/Astronautics Displays Details: Satellite Booster Display Date: 10/16/1970 - Filename:14_032248.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:50428598 - Catalog:14_027219 - Title:GD/Astronautics Charts Details: Space Shuttle Sortie Mission - Filename:14_027219.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
Astronaut Richard Arnold, STS-119 mission specialist, floats on the middeck of Space Shuttle Discovery while docked with the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: s119e007497
Date: March 22, 2009
NASA photographers captured the final landing of the space shuttle as it happened today and mankind turned the page on a remarkable story of exploration. As a former USAF pilot, I had the opportunity to train pilots that went into NASA and I flew rocket parts aboard my C-141 aircraft. I miss all that.
Retired in May 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour was ferried to Los Angeles on 21 September 2012, moved through city streets from the airport to Exposition Park on 12-14 October 2012, and put on display on 30 October 2012. After having seen the moves a few weeks earlier, I am visiting Endeavour again, on the second full day of the exhibit, Halloween.
Endeavour will be kept in this temporary exhibit space, Samuel Oschin Pavilion, until 2017, when the permanent Samuel Oschin Air & Space Center is planned to open, and Endeavour is to be displayed there in the launch configuration complete with boosters and external fuel tank.
The gift shop has some pricey scale models for sale. This is the priciest, at $550. For that price, I can own the entire NASA Space Shuttle fleet, including Enterprise (which only did in-atmosphere glide tests), Columbia (destroyed in 2003), and Challenger (destroyed in 1986).
Enterprise was retired in 1985, and displayed at the Smithsonian until April 2012 when it was moved to Intrepid Air and Sea Museum in New York City. Discovery took Enterprise's place at the Smithsonian. Atlantis remains at Kennedy Space Center, where a display pavilion is being built to display it in an in-flight configuration with open cargo bay.
Each orbiter is identified by name and its unique number. OV stands for Orbiter Vehicle, and operational orbiters were numbered from 101 up. Columbia was the first spaceworthy orbiter, and Enterprise was supposed to have been fitted out for spaceflight after Columbia entered service, but because the design changes made modifying Enterprise less cost-effective, the structural test vehicle OV-99 was instead fitted out and turned into Challenger, hence its out-of-order numbering.
The space shuttle Endeavour is seen atop the Over Land Transporter (OLT) in a hangar at the Los Angeles International Airport just a few hours before starting a 14 mile journey through the streets of Los Angeles to the California Science center's Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. Endeavour, built as a replacement for space shuttle Challenger, completed 25 missions, spent 299 days in orbit, and orbited Earth 4,671 times while traveling 122,883,151 miles. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)