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"The Space Shuttle Enterprise, the nation's prototype space shuttle orbiter, departed NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, at 11:00 a.m., May 16, 1983, on the first leg of its trek to the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport, Paris, France. Carried by the huge 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), the first stop for the Enterprise was Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Piloting the 747 on the Europe trip were Joe Algranti, Johnson Space Center Chief Pilot, Astronaut Dick Scobee, and NASA Dryden Chief Pilot Tom McMurtry. Flight engineers for that portion of the flight were Dryden's Ray Young and Johnson Space Center's Skip Guidry. The Enterprise, named after the spacecraft of Star Trek fame, was originally carried and launched by the 747 during the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) at Dryden Flight Research Center."
Date: May 16, 1983
NASA ID: ECN-24314
#Space Shuttle#Space Shuttle Enterprise#Enterprise#OV-101#Orbiter#NASA#Space Shuttle Program#Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft#Boeing 747 SCA#Boeing 747#747#Shuttle Carrier Aircraft#May#1983#my post
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What could have been had Congress funded the booster for Skylab.
Screenshot from "For all Mankind" link
#for all mankind#Skylab#space shuttle#NASA#spoliers#alt history#space station#Space Shuttle Program#my post
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"What a treat. And so many things, I can't get. I'm like a little kid with ice cream; I don't know where to start." CMP Ken Mattingly, expressing his joy while getting pictures of the moon on day 4 of Apollo 16's lunar mission. RIP.
Source and credit to: Andy Saunders @AndySaunders_1
S69-62237 (1969) --- Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II.
Source: NASA Johnson
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that one interview with sally ride in 1980 is MY roman empire
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I dont know why the crew portrait of STS-102 is so funny to me.
Look at it. It's so funny. The stellar editing. The hair. They look like teachers in a high school sitcom. Some of them look like teachers at my high school. I love the way they threw the three pictures together on top of another photo and haphazardly edited in the ISS in the corner like they forgot they had to include it. And something about it is so 70's to me, I don't know why.
#and yes#that was#in fact#a star pun#puns#iss#international space station#space#shitpost#STS-102#space shuttle#space shuttle program
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STS my beloathed
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A cutaway diagram of the space shuttle.
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#astronomy#nasa#astronomers#universe#astrophotography#nasa photos#astrophysics#outer space#nasawebb#hubble space telescope#space travel#space program#international space station#spacecraft#spaceship#i love astronomy#astronomy facts#astronauts#did you know?#solar system#space shuttle#space exploration#space#space science#science facts#planetary science#planetary nebula#cosmos#our universe#galaxies
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STS-132 - Atlantis - EOM: 26 May 2010 - KSC
#Space Shuttle#Atlantis#STS-132#Orbiter#NASA#spacecraft#KSC#Kennedy space center#aerospace#space program
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#buran#ussr#soviet era#end of the soviet union#soviet union#cosmonaut#soviet space program#energia#space shuttle
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Concept art of the Space Shuttle returning from Space.
Artwork by G. Harry Stine
Date: 1978
Posted on Flickr by Numbers Station: link, link
#Space Shuttle#Orbiter#NASA#Space Shuttle Program#re-entry#space#earth#concept art#artwork#1978#undated#my post
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Holy fuck y'all
Flickr account: NASA on the Commons
I haven't seen some of these photos in decades, and some I've never seen, and anyways
Crew of shuttle Atlantis playing peekaboo with crew of old Russian space station Mir (RIP) Nov 24, 1995
Q: why do most space photos showing spacecraft have no stars?
Discovery's maneuvering thrusters angled for pitch up, main engines at low burn, July 6, 2006
Discovery pulling in to dock with ISS, July 6, 2006
Endeavour departs ISS, March 24, 2008— note how bright the shadows are from the sun-glare off clouds.
Discovery over Southwest coast of Morocco as ISS and Discovery bid farewell and take photos of one another for final time on March 7, 2011.
Hint: Is it day or night in these photos?
Astronaut Charles M. Duke drilling, photographed by John W. Young (Hey, he flew on the first space shuttle!) April 21, 1972.
Pilot Harrison Schmidt bagging what they hope is a lava sample, Apollo 17, Dec 13, 1972.
International Space Station taken by Discovery undocking March 25, 2009.
Stars don't show in most photos of spacecraft because sunlight illuminates surfaces far more brightly than distant stars shine. In fact, sunlight in Earth's orbit is brighter in space, since air scatters enough light rays to turn their wavelength blue.
Columbia 😭 liftoff STS-50, June 25, 1992. Gods I miss ya, little sister.
But the sun covers less sky (or, to put it another way, the photons it emits kerp spreading out over an increasingly large sphere of space) for Mars and the outer planets, so its light is dimmer, until it's just another star.
Enhanced contrast version of first image of another planet, Mars by Mariner 3, July 15, 1965. 6 years before you were born doesn't feel that long ago... does it? Does it? How dare it start feeling that way to me! ;)
There's so many more amazing images on that channel, including planets/moons. Go look. Cool stuff.
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currently thinking about: kathy sullivan with a puppy
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