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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 =)
April 17, 2012. The space shuttle Discovery flies over the Washington D.C. area. Photo: Ryan Rayburn / World Bank
N905NA, callsign "Pluto 95 Heavy," carries the Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) to JFK from Washington, D.C.
This is a photo of the Space Shuttle on the carrier 747 passing near to my house in Oronge County California, USA.
PictionID:45182612 - Catalog:14_017372 - Title:Space Shuttle Details: Mid-Fuselage Assembly - Filename:14_017372.TIF - - - - - 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
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Edited NASA image of the space shuttle Discovery as it launches on 4 July 2006.
Original caption: Space Shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew launched at 2:38 p.m. (EDT) July 4, 2006, to begin the two-day journey to the International Space Station. During the 12-day mission, the crew tested new equipment and procedures designed to increase the safety of space shuttles, as well as deliver supplies and make repairs to the space station. The shuttle was the first U.S. human spacecraft to launch on July 4.
Image #: STS121-S-027
Date: July 4, 2006
Last night, I watched the launch of the Space Shuttle on TV, then I rushed outside to see if I could see the Shuttle. For missions to the International Space Station, they launch right up the Eastern coast of the US, a little out to sea, and even though NYC is nearly 1,000 miles away, the Shuttle can briefly become visible very low in the southeast like a quickly rising star that after a minute abruptly winks out when the main engine cuts off. My neighborhood, though, is full of lights and obstructions, and I wasn't able to see it this time. (I've had better luck when watching for the launches from the Empire State Building.)
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
NASA Shuttle Bus- April 30th, 2014- Entourage
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...
STS-119 Launch. Photo Credit: NASA
I worked the launch in Mission Control. It was my 5th launch. I'm a veteran now. ;)
De Buran (Russisch: Буран, voor "sneeuwstorm") was de Russische tegenhanger van het Amerikaanse Spaceshuttleprogramma. Het project was het duurste Sovjet-ruimtevaartprogramma ooit. Het ruimteveer was bedoeld om de Sojoez- en Progress-missies naar ruimtestation Mir te vervangen.
De Boeran lijkt uiterlijk sterk op het Amerikaanse ruimteveer en daarom werd aanvankelijk gedacht dat deze met behulp van spionage compleet was gekopieerd, maar dit bleek niet het geval. Het inwendige is sterk verschillend. De Boeran heeft een groter laadvermogen en terwijl de spaceshuttle zijn eigen hoofdmotoren heeft die gevoed worden door de externe brandstoftank, is de Boeran volledig afhankelijk van zijn draagraket.
Met het ontwikkelen van de Boeran werd in het begin van de jaren zeventig begonnen. De eerste en enige vlucht van de Boeran was een onbemande vlucht. Deze vond plaats op 15 november 1988. De Boeran werd gelanceerd met een aangepaste Energia-draagraket, voltooide twee banen om de aarde en keerde volautomatisch terug op Baikonoer Kosmodroom. Wegens geldgebrek werd het project vervolgens opgeschort. Op 30 juni 1993 besloot president Boris Jeltsin dat het Russische Spaceshuttle-project geheel zou worden gestaakt. In 2002 werd de Boeran vernietigd tijdens het instorten van een hangar. Acht mensen kwamen hierbij om. Een testmodel van de Boeran is op dit moment te bezichtigen in het Gorki Park in Moskou.
In april 2008 werd een testmodel van de Boeran, de OK-GLI, via de Rotterdamse haven naar Duitsland naar het Auto & Technik Museum in Speyer getransporteerd. De OK-GLI was uitgevoerd met conventionele straalmotoren en maakte 25 testvluchten. Hij heeft echter nooit in de ruimte gevlogen.
On April 17, 2012 the space shuttle Discovery hitched a ride on the back of a 747 jumbo jet especially designed as a space shuttle transport. It landed at Dulles Airport in Washington, DC, and the process to deliver Discovery to its new home at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center got under way. Through the eyes of a veteran NASA tour guide and aficionado, DJ Emmanuel, we get a behind-the-scenes view of what it was like to be there on such an historic and exciting day!
Credit : GSFC/Produced by Victoria Weeks/Additional footage by Robert Andreoli
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Trip to Washington taking in Alexandria, Washington Mall, Arlington Cemetery, Washington Nationals Baseball, Mount Vernon and Dulles Air and Space Museum
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.
Hank Rotter gave this to me after the second day of the workshop. Every mission team designs its own patches. This one was from Space Shuttle mission STS-89. Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the Mir space station, and astronaut Andrew Thomas replaced Dave Wolf there. The cyrillic is for Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, who also participated on the mission. This was the first flight for Michael Anderson, who later died on Columbia.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. In the Orbiter Processing Facility, an External Tank (ET) digital still camera is positioned into the right-hand liquid oxygen umbilical well on Space Shuttle Atlantis to determine if it fits properly. NASA is pursuing use of the camera, beginning with the Shuttles Return To Flight, to obtain and downlink high-resolution images of the ET following separation of the ET from the orbiter after launch. The Kodak camera will record 24 images, at one frame per 1.5 seconds, on a flash memory card. After orbital insertion, the crew will transfer the images from the memory card to a laptop computer. The files will then be downloaded through the Ku-band system to the Mission Control Center in Houston for analysis. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum