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Columbia lifts off the launch pad on April 12, 1981, during the first launch of the space shuttle. This image was taken near the vehicle assembly building on Kodak color print film using a 200mm zoom lens and a 2x adapter.
"Scenes of the Space Shuttle Challenger taken with a 70mm camera onboard the shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-01)"
By a Challenger crew member, June 22, 1983.
Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. Information Agency
This is the Space Shuttle (left hand streak) and the International Space Station (right streak) around 10:00 p.m. local time on June 19, 2007 as they were rising through the trees.
Trip to Washington taking in Alexandria, Washington Mall, Arlington Cemetery, Washington Nationals Baseball, Mount Vernon and Dulles Air and Space Museum
Seen through coastal fog. Strapped to the back of a 747, the space shuttle is on its way to Los Angeles where it will reside in the California Science Center.
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This just went over my house! Accompanied by a fighter jet! (I only had a moment when we heard the sound of it coming....I had my 7D with just the macro lens on at 640 ISO for shooting something else...all I could do is point up and shoot, no time to change anything)
Manufacturer: Rockwell International Corporation
Country of Origin: United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 57 ft. tall x 122 ft. long x 78 ft. wing span, 150,000 lb. (1737.36 x 3718.57 x 2377.44cm, 68039.6kg)
Materials:
Aluminum airframe and body with some fiberglass features; payload bay doors are graphite epoxy composite; thermal tiles are simulated (polyurethane foam) except for test samples of actual tiles and thermal blankets.
The first Space Shuttle orbiter, "Enterprise," is a full-scale test vehicle used for flights in the atmosphere and tests on the ground; it is not equipped for spaceflight. Although the airframe and flight control elements are like those of the Shuttles flown in space, this vehicle has no propulsion system and only simulated thermal tiles because these features were not needed for atmospheric and ground tests. "Enterprise" was rolled out at Rockwell International's assembly facility in Palmdale, California, in 1976. In 1977, it entered service for a nine-month-long approach-and-landing test flight program. Thereafter it was used for vibration tests and fit checks at NASA centers, and it also appeared in the 1983 Paris Air Show and the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans. In 1985, NASA transferred "Enterprise" to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
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.
This week (unless he is late), I am going into a new frontier.....Fatherhood!!!!
Like all who have gone before me, I'm about to jump out of the spaceship and free fall into the great unknown. Wish me luck!
Photo Info: Picture of the super sonic space suit used during the "red bull space jump" this year.
This image is part of a series of images showing various stages of the process to assemble an external tank beginning with the early stages of welding and ending with roll out of a completed external tank to the Pegasus barge at the dock at Michoud Assembly Facility. Several graphic images show the internal and external views of the Liquid Oxygen Tank, Intertank, Liquid Hydrogen Tank and a completed external tank with thermal protection system.
Image credit: NASA
Space Shuttle liftoff yesterday. A low cloud deck caused it to disappear. Oh well, maybe next month.
Taken at Kennedy Space Center, FL, prior to the events of September 11. The shuttle was still visible on a drive-by tour for KSC's employee Open House; now the view is obscured for security reasons.
This is the space shuttle Columbia (STS-5) returning to Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert in November-1982. One of the chase planes is in the upper right corner
Julie made this cake for Tristan. Banana cake inside, vanilla frosting, with chocolate frosting for design (and a few candies).
Trip to Washington taking in Alexandria, Washington Mall, Arlington Cemetery, Washington Nationals Baseball, Mount Vernon and Dulles Air and Space Museum
The most amazing picture of Discovery I've yet seen.
This image has been released by NASA into the Public Domain .. and as such, it's a free-for-all =)
This was part of the Space Shuttle Endeavour exhibit at the CaliforniaScienCenter. It seems a bit tricky to use!
April 17, 2012. The space shuttle Discovery flies over the Washington D.C. area. Photo: Ryan Rayburn / World Bank