- Shuttle Service to DC - National Air and Space Museum
Much to the delight of large crowds below, Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), made several passes over the Washington, DC area yesterday Discovery, the first orbiter retired from NASA's shuttle fleet, completed 39 missions, spent 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times, and traveled 148,221,675 miles
- Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum
The Space Shuttle Discovery is a reusable spacecraft that carried astronauts into space and is now displayed at the National Air and Space Museum
- A new podcast about Space Shuttle, Sixteen Sunsets with Kevin Fong.
To survive, NASA gambles on a radical new program: the Space Shuttle - a reusable spacecraft promising a new era of spaceflight, but it comes at a cost – a Faustian bargain with the US military, that will reshape its dreams and NASA's destiny Ever wondered how the Space Shuttle came to be? Welcome to a new podcast series, 16 Sunsets
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - National Air and Space Museum
The Udvar-Hazy Center displays thousands of aviation and space artifacts, including the Space Shuttle Discovery and a Concorde, in two large hangars
- AVIC Cargo shuttle “Haolong”
The Haolong space cargo shuttle, developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute under the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), was among the winning projects, and was awarded a contract for the engineering flight verification phase The spacecraft of this type can be launched by a carrier rocket and dock with the space station After separating from the
- Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144)
Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144)Hello everybody, and with that now to the model bulding of the Paper-Astrovan (1:48), let's go First of all, this is a look at the kit templates, the larger one is the Original Paper kit in 1:48, and on top of it lies the version that has been reduced in size for my diorama (1:160) with the NASA Worm logo so that the van also matches
- History of Space Shuttle Rendezvous - NASASpaceFlight. com
History of Space Shuttle RendezvousSpace Shuttle Guidance, Navigation, and Rendezvous Knowledge Capture Reports JSC-66136 Revision 1 - October 2011 This document is a catalog and readers guide to lessons learned, experience, and technical history reports, as well as compilation volumes prepared by United Space Alliance personnel for the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) Flight Dynamics Division
- Scott Manley - Why NASA Flew A Mac on the Space Shuttle
The story behind the free-floating floppy video clip from a 1990's space shuttle mission NASA has flown many computers during the space shuttle program, they were used to run experiments and run software that didn't fit into the main flight computer On STS-41 a Mac Portable was flown as part of a test of user interfaces in zero-G, and this was repeated on STS-43, with the computer also being
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