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Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit 'Incredible,' 'Breathtaking' | NASA Shuttle Program | Sp... - 0 views

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  • The retired orbiter is displayed at an angle, with its cargo bay doors open and robotic arm outstretched
  • The public got its first official look at the display
  • June 29
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  • when the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibition opened
  • at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
  • Atlantis dominates the center of a multistory building that allows views of the orbiter from many angles.
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Atlantis Exposed: Space Shuttle Fully Unwrapped for NASA Exhibit | Kennedy Space Center... - 0 views

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  • Space shuttle Atlantis
  • is set to go on public display June 29 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida
  • revealed Friday (April 26) after workers spent two days peeling off its protective shrink-wrap cover of the past five months.
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  • , workers began carefully cutting back the 16,000 square feet (1,486 square meters) of shrink wrap that protected Atlantis as its $100 million exhibition building was completed around it
  • By the end of the first day, the shuttle's nose, tail, aft engines and left wing were exposed.
  • the workers completed the process, revealing Atlantis' right wing and its 60-foot-long (18 meter) payload bay
  • Opening the payload bay is
  • set to begin in May, will take about two weeks, as the doors are very slowly hoisted open, one by one.
  • Atlantis has been mounted. Thirty feet (9 meters) in the air, the space shuttle has been tilted 43.21 degrees, such that its left wing extends toward the ground.
  • Atlantis will appear to be back in space — an effect that will be enhanced by lighting and a mural-size digital screen that will project the Earth's horizon behind the shuttle
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Space Shuttle Discovery Enters Smithsonian for Museum Display | NASA Shuttle Retirement... - 0 views

www.space.com/covery-smithsonian-museum.html

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  • Mars Base on 20 Apr 12
     
    ted with technological and scientific achievements, including the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990 and the deployment of the Ulysses solar probe the same year. The fleet leader, Discovery also returned the space shuttle program to flight after the losses of Challenger and Columbia in 1986 and 2003, respectively.
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Lego Space Shuttle Takes Flight, Returns to Earth Undamaged | PCWorld - 0 views

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  • : Raul Oaidia from Romania launched a Lego space shuttle into the stratosphere on the back of a weather balloon.
  • help from Steve Sammartino, a businessman who funded this Lego spaceflight
  • Lego space shuttle model (set number 3367!) and a video camera to capture the voyage.
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  • According to Raul, he and his father traveled to Germany to launch the balloon, since that country's regulations on this sort of project are more relaxed than those in Romania
  • launch took place on December 31, and the balloon with its Lego cargo flew to an altitude of about 35,000 meters (that's roughly 114,800 feet for those of us in the US).
  • Check out Raul's blog for the full story, and a list of the equipment he used to carry out the launch
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    Lego Space Shuttle Takes Flight, Returns to Earth Undamaged
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Endeavour to Take to the Skies One Last Time - 0 views

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  • Endeavour, mounted atop NASA’s modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), will become the last Space Shuttle orbiter to soar aloft when it departs Monday, Sept. 17, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a three-day flight to Los Angeles International Airport.
  • In cooperation with the Federal Aviation Administration, the SCA is scheduled to conduct low-level flyovers at about 1,500 feet above many locations along the planned flight path, including Cape Canaveral, Stennis Space Center, New Orleans and stopovers in both Houston and Edwards Air Force Base in California
  • also planned before landing at LAX on the 20th
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  • Flyovers of Sacramento and San Francisco ar
  • The orbiter then will travel through Inglewood and Los Angeles city streets on a 12-mile journey from the airport to the California Science Center, arriving on the evening of Oct. 13
  • Beginning Oct. 30, the shuttle will be on permanent display in the science center’s Samuel Oschin Space Shuttle Endeavour Display Pavilion
  • Endeavour (OV-105) was the last shuttle orbiter to be constructed for NASA. Endeavour completed 25 missions, spent 299 days in orbit, and orbited Earth 4,671 times while traveling 122,883,151 miles.
  • s #spottheshuttle and #OV105
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Space Shuttle Enterprise Opens to Public in NYC | Space.com - 0 views

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  • On Thursday (July 19), the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on Manhattan's west side opened its new "Space Shuttle Pavilion" to the public
  • NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined a dozen of his fellow shuttle-era astronauts — including three of the four pilots who flew Enterprise during its atmospheric approach and landing test program in 1977
  • Enterprise, which never flew in space, is presented in a darkened display with dramatic blue lighting, evoking the atmosphere of flight
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  • raised platform at the front of the vehicle allows guests to come nose-to-nose with the Enterprise, as well as look into its crew cabin's windows and down the length of the 122 foot (37 meter) prototype spacecraft
  • During the opening ceremony, Marenoff-Zausner, together with Mosler and Fisher, presented the Enterprise veterans with plaques commemorating that their names would be displayed alongside the shuttle in the form of star-shaped displays
  • Also on hand
  • Karol "Bo" Bobko, who served as prime chase plane pilot for Enterprise's approach and landing test (ALT) program
  • The entire Intrepid team is working hard to raise the funds and develop a plan for the permanent home for Enterprise, on the grounds of this museum but not on the flight deck
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Space Shuttle Trainer Lifts Off for Seattle on NASA Aircraft | Space.com - 0 views

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  • wide-bodied turboprop aircraft previously used to deliver the room-size modules of the International Space Station to their Florida launch site.
  • Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT), a life-size space shuttle mockup that was used by every person who flew on the shuttle while training at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston
  • the FFT is being delivered in segmentsto The Museum of Flight in Seattle for its public display.
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  • 28-foot (8.5 meters) long compartment — comprising the shuttle's iconic nose with its dual level flight- and mid-decks
  • Shuttlefest
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NASA Space Shuttle Trainer Lands in Seattle | Shuttle Musuem Displays | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Seattle's The Museum of Flight moved a nose closer to exhibiting a full-size mockup of the space shuttle on Saturday (June 30) with the delivery of the front section of a retired astronaut trainer by a large NASA cargo plane
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Chasing Atlantis: An Upcoming Film about the Shuttle's Legacy - 0 views

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  • Five Canadians made the trek to Florida to watch the final shuttle launch last year. They are wrapping up filming and interviews — which included astronauts and sci-fi stars — to discuss the legacy of the program.
  • How did you get down there?
  • drove the entire journey from Toronto to the Titusville/Cocoa Beach area
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  • stopped at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to shoot prototype shuttle Enterprise before it was moved to New York City
  • we had written the Chasing Atlantis Twitter account and site URL on our cars
  • A NASA software engineer, Ryan Horan, saw our car with Paul shooting out the window as we passed by the sign for the Kennedy Space Center. He was interested in our project and sent us a tweet.
  • arranged
  • to join one of the first tours following the reopening of the Vehicle Assembly Building to the public.
  • The building is monstrously huge. It will generate its own weather system inside, sometimes producing micro-rain clouds.
  • The film was completely self-funded
  • posting an Indie-Go-Go or Kickstarter profile up in hopes of helping to cover the post-production costs
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Taking Cross-Country Flight for Display | Space.com - 0 views

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  • The trip is set to begin on Sept. 17, weather permitting, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and culminate at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sept. 20
  • The carrier aircraft will arrive at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 11
  • Three days later, the orbiter will be rolled out to meet the SCA at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF), where Endeavour returned to Earth for its 25th and final time in the early morning hours of June 1, 2011
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  • Endeavour will be hoisted off the ground by crane
  • then be lowered onto the SCA's back and secured for flight
  • Coordinating with the Federal Aviation Administration, the SCA will perform low flyovers — as low as 1,500 feet (457 meters) — as it passes NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
  • low passes over areas around Houston, Clear Lake and Galveston in Texas before making a landing at Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center.
  • Weather permitting, the SCA and Endeavour will remain at Ellington for the remainder of the day and all day on Sept. 18, providing Johnson employees and the Houston public an ample opportunity to see the shuttle.
  • take to the air again at sunrise on Sept. 19, and after a brief refueling stop at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas
  • low-level flyovers of White Sands Test Facility near Las Cruces, N.M., and Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California
  • morning of Sept. 20
  • Finally on the morning of Sept. 20, Endeavour, still on top of the SCA, will take off one last time, departing Dryden to fly over Northern California, passing above NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field and various landmarks in multiple cities, including San Francisco and Sacramento, the state's capitol
  • The carrier aircraft will fly near
  • , the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena before performing flyovers over many Los Angeles landmarks on its way to a landing at LAX
  • According to NASA, some of the flyovers or layovers that are planned could be delayed or cancelled as a result
  • flies over seven states and eight of NASA's facilities
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Arrives at Museum Home | Space.com - 0 views

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  • reached the threshold of the hangar at about 2 p.m. PDT (5:00 p.m. EDT; 2100 GMT), where it was set to enter through the building's temporarily removed rear wall
  • , Endeavour will be hoisted vertical and exhibited with a pair of solid rocket boosters and a replica external fuel tank to re-create how the space shuttle looked before liftoff.
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Plastic Wrapped Shuttle Atlantis Slated for Grand Public Unveiling in June - 0 views

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  • Space Shuttle Atlantis
  • will be unveiled to the public in June 2013
  • The plastic wrap is protecting the orbiter from construction debris and will be unfurled in May
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  • Then the payload bay doors will be carefully opened and the Canadian built remote manipulator system (RMS) — or robotic arm — will be installed and extended
  • new 90,000-square-foot home
  • mounted high on steel pedestals – tilted at exactly 43.21 degrees – simulating the outlook as though she was ‘in flight’ orbiting Earth and approaching the International Space Station (ISS).
  • Atlantis rises some 30 feet off the ground
  • nose soars 26.5 feet above ground the portside wingtip sits only 7.5 feet from the floor. The wing tip top soars 87 feet from the ground
  • sitting right beside Atlantis will be a co-orbiting, high fidelity full scale replica of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
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Shuttle Enterprise Beneath Shelter on NYC Museum Flight Deck | Space.com - 0 views

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  • Two weeks after "landing" on top of the aircraft carrier-turned-Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, NASA's prototype space shuttle Enterprise is now underneath the inflatable canopy that will house its public display.
  • Enterprise was covered by the opaque-white fabric shelter on Tuesday (June 19) to protect it from exposure to the elements and to meet NASA's display requirements for a climate-controlled facility
  • Some final work configuring the canopy is still underway however, including the removal of scaffolding that supported the fabric being raised, which led to it being deflated again.
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  • pressurized enclosure extends over Enterprise's tail, which tops out at 57 feet (17 meters) high, and beyond the shuttle's 78-foot (24-meter) wingspan. It occupies the rear of the Intrepid's flight deck with the shuttle's nose pointed out toward the Hudson River
  • display is set to open to the public on July 19
  • visitors the chance to closely view and circle around the prototype winged orbiter
  • The location for the permanent Enterprise exhibit is still to be decided. Intrepid officials told collectSPACE that they are considering locations across the street from where the aircraft carrier is docked and also alongside the museum on the pier.
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