Shuttle Enterprise Over New York

I thought it going there on a Barge?? Cool though. Click pics to enlarge. Look who showed up to watch "Enterprise"

Shuttle Discovery Over DC

Click each to enlarge, right click to save.  These are HD.

 Bye KSC...

This is where those idiots work eh?

Landing at Dulles Airport in Virginia.

Discovery's DC Visit (NASA Photos)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_jsc_photo/

Drill down to the high resolution ones!

Closup Of The Shuttle Cockpit

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120416-nasa-space-shuttle-discovery-smithsonian-360-tour-panorama-science/

Shuttle Carrier

World's Greatest Piggyback Ride

04.10.12

Time lapse video of the preparations to mate the shuttle to the carrier.

Shuttle Carrier Arrives To Deliver Discovery

On April 17th this 747 will parade the Shuttle Discovery around the airspace over Washington DC. I will sadly, be too far away to see it. Check NASA for details (mainly downtown).

It will be the last time a Space Shuttle is up in the air.

Shuttle Vs Soyuz

The difference between a launch of a capsule and a "ship" is obvious.

The Shuttle Documentary

Narrated by William Shatner (my last big Shuttle post). Let it load ahead a while, if you go for the high definition version..

Killing The Shuttles (sort of)

I would be lying if I said I didn't choke up. But thinking about SpaceX snapped me out of it.

Space Shuttle Emergency Egress

One more time, with feeling...

Riding The Booster

ILM tweeked up the audio, I had seen the footage before, but this is very cool.

Parking The Shuttles

In case you didn't hear where they are going;
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/shuttle_station/features/shuttle_homes.html

747's Fly In Formation

Probably a first and last..


Cool, thanks NASA!

Shuttle Docked To ISS Video

Never to be filmed again. I wish it was HD, still cool though..

Shuttle Atlantis Launch Videos

If you are a space nerd, these have some fascinating moments;

Retiring The Shuttle Is A Good Thing

A guy at work today asked me how close the ISS/Shuttle are to the Moon when in Orbit. So I made a graph showing the distance from earth of both (view full size).

So as the shuttle winds down, we start work on Orion:


When it's nearly ready, NASA will propose a mission. Something bigger, and much much farther than the moon.
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Space Shuttle Retrospective

Watch it in HD..full screen. Final launch is Friday morning.

Space Shuttle Distances

Thank you BBC!

click to enlarge.

Very nice graphic...

Endeavour Final Launch Video

I have never seen the view from the booster rockets, looking up and down. At the moment of booster separation, watch the far right frame. Damn cool!

Endeavour Docked With ISS (Pics)

Never happened before, and we will never see this on film again. A once in "forever" chance, for the departing Soyuz (Expedition 27) to catch it.

More pics below..

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/multimedia/e27depart.html

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