Tag: Space Shuttle
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Photos: Shuttle tank arrives in California
The museum-bound space shuttle tank is coming ashore this morning in Marina del Rey, California, for offloading from its transport barge. The tank has spent the past five weeks at sea, traveling from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans. A 16-mile parade along Los Angeles city streets to the California Science Center will be Saturday.…
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Journey of shuttle fuel tank to California saves four people in Pacific
File photo from the trip by Dennis R. Jenkins Making a brief pit shop in San Diego to clear customs today, the museum-bound space shuttle external fuel tank will reach Los Angeles for offloading from the transport barge on Wednesday, just days after a serendipitous rescue of the passengers from a sunken boat in the…
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Photos: Space shuttle fuel tank in Panama for passage through canal
The last space shuttle external tank in existence, headed from the New Orleans manufacturing plant to the California Science Center for the vertical launch pad display of the retired orbiter Endeavour, has passed through the Panama Canal. The Shannon Dann tugboat pulling the Gulfmaster I barge loaded with External Tank No. 94 arrived at the…
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Museum-bound shuttle external tank completes transit of Panama Canal
The tank passed the Pedro Miguel Locks on Tuesday. Photo by Panama Canal @thepanamacanal Navigating the 48-mile Panama Canal that slices through the isthmus, the final shipment of a space shuttle external fuel tank emerged into the Pacific this afternoon for a three-week trek to California. The Shannon Dann tugboat pulling the Gulfmaster I barge…
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Last space shuttle tank reaches Panama Canal for crossing to Pacific
The tank left Louisiana factory on April 12. Credit: California Science Center CAPE CANAVERAL — The tugboat and barge transporting the last space shuttle external tank to its display venue in California have reached the inlet to the Panama Canal, now just days away from sailing into the Pacific. It is the fifth shuttle fuel…
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April 12, 1981: 35 years since the maiden space shuttle launch
America’s first space shuttle launched on this day 35 years ago as the reusable flying machine, Columbia, lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with John Young and Bob Crippen aboard. The launch came 20 years to the day after human spaceflight began. Yuri Gagarin launched aboard Vostok 1 to become the first person to orbit…
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Final space shuttle fuel tank in existence heads to California museum
ET-94 departs Michoud this afternoon. Credit: California Science Center On the 35th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch, the last remaining external fuel tank set sail today from its factory in New Orleans to Los Angeles and a remarkable museum attraction in the making. Known as External Tank No. 94, the relic of a…
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Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank relic heads for California
The last remaining external fuel tank built for the space shuttle program but never flew will depart its factory in New Orleans on Tuesday for a long sea voyage to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. These pictures courtesy of the California Science Center show the tank being readied to leave the Michoud Assembly…
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‘Slick 6:’ 30 years after the hopes of a West Coast space shuttle
The shuttle Enterprise sits atop SLC-6 for “fit checks” in 1985. Credit: Air Force It was 1986 and the U.S. Air Force was on the cusp of something unprecedented in human spaceflight — launching a space shuttle crew from California and paving the way for people to fly true polar missions. Space Launch Complex 6,…
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Families, NASA honor fallen astronauts
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION On the 30th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, crew families, friends and space workers gathered Thursday to remember the 17 men and women who lost their lives on the high frontier, 14 in two space shuttle disasters and three in an Apollo-era launch pad fire 49 years ago…