Tag: Space Shuttle
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Shuttle-era structure dismantled piece-by-piece at pad 39A
Credit: Spaceflight Now A heavy-duty crane towering over launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in recent weeks has removed several large sections of a disused structure once needed to install satellites and space station modules into space shuttle cargo bays. A demolition crew hired by SpaceX, the launch pad’s current tenant, has plucked…
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Interview: Astronaut Mike Massimino looks back at Hubble – and looks ahead to space tourism
Astronaut Mike Massimino, who was on the final Space Shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, marvels at what Hubble has accomplished. (GeekWire Photo / Geof Wheelwright) NEW ORLEANS – It’s apparently not enough that Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut, a best-selling author and an engineering professor. He’s also raring to go back…
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Twin solid rockets, reused veterans of spaceflight, set for Endeavour display
File photo of two shuttle solid rocket boosters. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — Two space shuttle solid rocket boosters — reusable space hardware that launched on 81 missions — are being gifted to the California Science Center to become part of the museum’s launch pad display of Endeavour. Made by Orbital ATK, the twin boosters…
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Last shuttle commander ‘back in the fight’ with Boeing
When Chris Ferguson climbed into the commander’s seat of the shuttle Atlantis five years ago Friday for the spaceship’s final flight, he didn’t know what turn his career would take when he returned to Earth. Like many space shuttle workers, Ferguson had to decide what to do next. Atlantis’ final flight, which lifted off July…
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STS-135 video: ‘Poetry in motion’
Watch the shuttle Atlantis’ backflip, which occurred five years ago today, before docking to the International Space Station. The rendezvous pitch maneuver — the 360-degree flip — enabled the space station’s crew to photograph Atlantis’ belly with handheld digital cameras equipped with 400- and 800-millimeter lenses as part of post-launch inspections of the heat shield.…
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India’s space shuttle prototype executes test flight and makes a splash landing
India’s RLV-TD prototype rises from its launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Center. (Credit: ISRO) India’s space agency says it put its winged space shuttle prototype, known as the RLV-TD, through a successful first test flight today. In a congratulatory tweet, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the launch of “India’s first indigenous space shuttle.” The…
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Parade moves last shuttle fuel tank to museum for Endeavour display
The external tank crosses the 405 Freeway. Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News A spectacle never seen before — a space shuttle external fuel tank traversing city streets — was witnessed in Los Angeles today as the relic was moved to the museum that will construct a rocket science attraction. See a full gallery of…
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Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank moves through Los Angeles to museum
A last-of-its-kind piece of space hardware — the only remaining shuttle external fuel tank — is making its way along the city streets of Los Angeles today. External Tank No. 94 is headed from Marina del Rey on the Pacific Coast, where it arrived by barge on Wednesday, to the California Science Center at Exposition…
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Shuttle fuel tank comes ashore in California for Endeavour museum exhibit
Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News A five-week, 5,000-mile sea trek of the last space shuttle external fuel tank pulled into port today for a parade through the urban jungle of Southern California on Saturday to its final destination. Originally built for a shuttle mission but never flown, the last-of-its-kind tank was donated to the…
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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.…