Here's a photo from the El Paso Times showing the Endeavour landing in El Paso atop its carrier aircraft. I've never seen the Shuttle launching, but have seen it atop the 747 four times: once ... [Read More]
I see that the ISS crew was temporarily evacuated to the Russian Soyuz capsule today. A 5-inch * piece of space junk was expected to pass within the 2.8 mile 'danger box' around the station. ... [Read More]
This probably isn't news to people who paid attention and could count, but it appears that unless additional funding is sought, that is the case. The Washington Post points out that the Station will ... [Read More]
STS-114 Space Shuttle Discovery Performs Back Flip For Photography , originally uploaded by Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee .
I know 'up' doesn't mean much in orbit and any ... [Read More]
In his post on tomorrow's Ares I-X launch (maybe...weather "may be a problem"), Wayne Hill posted the following cool, and historic, photo of both the Ares and Shuttle on their pads. Couldn't ... [Read More]
Verna's Photo of the Month features an interesting Shuttle variant. She's highlighting Dr. Roy Houchin's custom Shuttle, outfitted with a Boostervision camera and scale "crawler" pad. Meanwhile ... [Read More]
Back when the X-Prize Cup was held in Las Cruces, I made several posts about other space and semi-space-related attractions in that general neck of the woods. Here's one of the posts . Well, a ... [Read More]
Physics Fairies , originally uploaded by jurvetson . Early morning photo by Tinkerbell (a Disneyworld employee), posted by Juvetson with permission. Shared from Flickr based on the indicated CC ... [Read More]
That's the theme of this issue of Boston.com's The Big Picture . TBP is always worth look. I snatched a copy of of my fav. "Space Shuttle Discovery is seen streaking into space (to the left) as a ... [Read More]
In an earlier post , I commented on Scott Lowther's post entitled Giant's in the Sky, Part 2. I have been snoozing because I missed Part 1 . In Part 1, he starts with the Space Shuttle ... [Read More]
This video compilation was prepared from engineering footage of the STS-114, STS-117, and STS-124 missions. Credit: Matt Melis at the Glenn Research Center. [Read More]
Here are the deleted scenes from the video Ascent - Commemorating the Space Shuttle . Watch it, and if you missed the original, go watch it too !
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Trey Ratcliff commemorates the Shuttle program with some of his favorite HDR (high dynamic range) shots - Best of NASA . I repeated three of them below. Check out his blog for even more and ... [Read More]
This is a display that I put together after the Challenger disaster. It includes individual mission patches (of the sticker variety) from STS-6 through -51L. I didn't receive patches ... [Read More]
Orbiter kiss , a photo by Flying Jenny on Flickr.
I have heard that the NASM's Udvar-Hazy annex will have two Shuttles on display for a short period - the Enterprise and the Discovery. They ... [Read More]
My wife stumbled across some of my Space Shuttle memorabilia and I scanned a handful of the items. I posted one here, and the rest are on Facebook (link is supposed to be public).
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08_00995.jpg , a photo by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr.
Here's an interesting concept with the 'shuttle' being surrounded by two canted tanks. The SDA&S Archive just ... [Read More]
It appears NASA JSC is donating another Shuttle training resource. The Fuselage Trainer will be given to the Seattle Museum of Flight later this week. ( PRNewswire ) Glad to see more ... [Read More]
CollectSpace reports on the Space Shuttle's final crew patch, which will commemorate the delivery of the Shuttles to their final resting places. The patch was designed by pilot Jeff ... [Read More]
National Geographic has posted an unique look at Space Shuttle Discovery as it was being decommissioned: Space Shuttle in Extreme Detail: Exclusive New Pictures - Explore Discovery's ... [Read More]
Space Shuttle Endeavour 360° VR Panorama , a photo by jurvetson on Flickr.
Steve just posted several 360° circular panoramas of Space Shuttle Endeavour (click through to see the rest). ... [Read More]
Earlier, I posted about the Space Shuttle mockup's departure from KSC . Space Center Houston has announced that it will arrive in Clear Lake by barge on Friday, June 1, 2012. This will ... [Read More]
Eatlier this morning, the ISS' robotic arm successfully grabbed the Dragon capsule. Evidently, there was glitch in the capsules lidar that was seeing an unexpected reflection off the station. ... [Read More]
Johnson Space Center Houston Mockup Space Shuttle Explorer , a photo by PeaceLoveScoobie on Flickr.
Docked and (almost) ready to be loaded for its trip down NASA Road 1. (We spent our last night ... [Read More]
There are plenty of cool photos of the Enterprise's barge ride on its Flickr group , including the following by user John Skelson: Keith Cowling reports that the barge operator(s) clipped a dock ... [Read More]
CNN posted the following photo showing the collapse of the tent that covered the Enterprise aboard the Intrepid. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those adversely affected by Sandy!
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After finding the Secret Projects Forum , I began poking around and found the US Space Shuttle Projects thread. I'll leave it up to you to explore as you see fit. There are lots of cool ... [Read More]
I noticed that the SDASM's early space shuttle photos are not copyrighted so I grabbed a bunch, which are included below for your viewing pleasure. There are manym many more cool ones, so I still ... [Read More]
F-22 and a space shuttle take off , a photo by yacielcruz on Flickr.
I think I may have posted this before but it's so cool that I don't care if I did. Click through to see the rest of this guy's ... [Read More]
I had been resisting watching this video but finally broke down. And, man, I'm glad I did. Commander Chris Hadfield's version of David Bowie's Space Oddity is really quite good. ... [Read More]
Here's a photo from the El Paso Times showing the Endeavour landing in El Paso atop its carrier aircraft. I've never seen the Shuttle launching, but have seen it atop the 747 four times: once ... [Read More]
