Space Shuttle Processing Posted: 5 months ago by doggylives
Some amazing photo's of the Discovery shuttles external tank fitting. From arrival by barge to lift-off. It gives you some idea of the sheer hugeness of these things.
May be a dupe but I can't find it
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Discovery Launch Planned for December 7 Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
NASA senior managers have picked December 7 for the next launch for the space shuttle Discovery. If all goes well, STS-116 will blast off at 9:35 pm local time (0235 GMT December 8) carrying 7 astronauts, and return to the International Space Station.
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Shuttle Discovery lands safely at Kennedy Space Center Posted: 2 years ago by Fanatic
The space shuttle has just landed successfully at KSC. A recap of the landing is available at the link above.
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NASA goofs on space shuttle banner Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
NASA moved space shuttle Endeavour a step closer to liftoff without an essential part: the "u."
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Impossibly Cool Fish Tank Posted: 1 year ago by gnikgnok
"I don't know how this fish tank works exactly, but from what I could understand, the tank on top that joins the adjacent tanks works as a vacuum. The result is that there are feeding holes in the side of the tank, and the water does not flow out. I could not wrap my mind around this technology, but it works."
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NASA finds tiny hole in Atlantis caused by space debris Posted: 2 years ago by Fanatic
NASA discovered that space shuttle Atlantis has been holed by a tiny piece of space debris. The 1/10-inch hole represents the second largest debris damage event ever identified. Fortunately, it missed everything that was important to the mission. Space debris is an increasingly challenging problem.
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Space Shuttle Sabatoge Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
A space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that is supposed to fly aboard shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, an act of sabotage that
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Pictures of the Space Shuttle launch from the ISS Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Many of us have seen images of the Space Shuttle launching as taken from the ground.
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Sci-fi Ship Chart Posted: 1 year ago by deepchill
Gives size comparison for everything from 2001: A Space Odyssey's USS Discovery to a Heavy Cruiser from Babylon 5. TONS of Trekkie stuff, and neat even for non-nerds to peek at, as it includes real Earth space ships, like the State's shuttle.
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Rarely Seen Shuttle Pre-Flight Activities Posted: 11 months ago by ztyler90
These following pictures show the amount of thought and engineering that goes into the whole launch process. After looking at the pictures you will know why there’s a good period of time between shuttle launches
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Shuttle Atlantis blasts off Posted: 7 months ago by CheeseWiener
After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted into orbit Thursday with Europe's gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.
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Space Shuttle Lands Safely Posted: 2 years ago by mrnelson
This is Atlantis signing off...
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Man finds anti-tank shell in garden Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A British teenager putting up a fence for his neighbor in South Wales called the bomb squad after accidentally stumbling upon an anti-tank grenade.
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Train Carrying Space Shuttle Parts Derails in Alabama Posted: 1 year ago by larknet
A freight train carrying segments of the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters derailed Wednesday after a bridge collapsed, authorities said. Six people were reported injured. You can locate the wreckage by the line of pick up trucks.
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Space telescope makes startling discovery Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided evidence representing a major upset for conventional theories that propose a single period for star birth. The European Space Agency said the telescope, observing globular cluster NGC 2808, has shown three separate generations of stars formed early in the cluster's life.
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NASA approves Hubble repair mission Posted: 2 years ago by Fanatic
Reversing a previous decision, NASA has authorized sending shuttle Discovery to repair the Hubble space telescope in 2008. Hubble will get new batteries, gyroscopes, and two new science instruments, among other fixes.
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Museum in Space? Posted: 2 years ago by sparky
A blog post suggests that Hubble could be kept in a high-orbit 'museum' rather than being made to crash into the Earth's atmosphere.
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$26M Paid to Columbia Shuttle Families Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
NASA paid $26.6 million to family members of the astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, a newspaper reported Sunday, citing recently released documents.
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Astronauts prepare for fifth space walk Posted: 5 months ago by doggylives
Astronauts Robert Behnken and Michael Foreman plan to attach the 50-foot inspection boom to the outside of the space station on Saturday during the fifth and final spacewalk of Endeavour's mission. Discovery will carry the boom back to Earth after its mission ends.
Meh, probably faked :D
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Top Gear launches a Space Shuttle--Made from a (real) car!? Posted: 1 year ago by Fanatic
The solution to the high cost of space travel involves launching a Reliant Robin--a 3-wheeled car with a pointy nose--on a 1/5 scale space shuttle. With predictable results. Take it from me, though, the amateur rocketry technology behind this launch is incredible,and the results are due to the short TV production schedule. (20 minutes, FF to 16:00 if you just want to see the outcome).
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F-18 Pilot Shoots down his wingman with a fuel tank! Posted: 1 year ago by BrownTrout
Video: F-18 pilot jettisons what looks like his external fuel tank while flying close form with an A-4 Skyhawk... a little too close -- the tank flies up and takes out the other aircraft in a ball of flames.
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