#Space Shuttle Enterprise

[lonestarflight]

The installed ejection seat on Space Shuttle Enterprise in preparation for the next stage of the Altitude and Landing Tests.

Date: April 28, 1977

NASA ID: EC77-7247

#Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Enterprise #OV-101 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Dryden Flight Research Center #Edwards Air Force Base #California #April #1977 #Approach and Landing Tests #my post

[todaysdocument]

Space Shuttle Enterprise catches a piggyback ride from a 747 on its way to the Paris Air Show, May 19, 1983. 

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Image description: Struts hold the Space Shuttle to the back of a 747, which is taking off from a runway. The Space Shuttle is about two-thirds the size of the airplane but has a similar profile. 

#archivesgov #May 19 #1983 #1980s #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Enterprise #747 #airplane #I guess it's airplane week #I hope you enjoyed it

[spockvarietyhour]

Space Shuttle Enterprise brought to the Intrepid, 2012

#Space Shuttle #Enterprise #Space Shuttle Enterprise #NASA #USS Intrepid #Intrepid Exhibit #Intrepid Museum #NYC #New York City #photography

[emaadsidiki]

The Space Shuttle Pavilion

USS Intrepid’s Island (NYC)

#USS Intrepid #80th Anniversary #CV-11 #Aircraft Carrier #Intrepid80 #Aircraft #Aviation #Space #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Pavilion #NASA #Museum #Intrepid Museum #Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum #Manhattan #New York City #New York

[nocternalrandomness]

NASA 905 at JFK with Enterprise

#NASA #747 #SCA #Orbiter #Space Shuttle #Enterprise #Spacecraft #Aviation #Airplane #Aircraft

[spirk-trek]

Star Trek The Animated Series | 1973

#shuttle bay #shuttle craft #uss enterprise #star trek tos #the animated series #star trek #animation #space #art #retro futurism #1970s #katpost

[ancientfrozenglaciershark]

my family: we’re making Christmas cookies

me: Spaceship cookies, you say?

#i love u space #tardis #uss enterprise #space shuttle #spaceship #doctor who #star trek #dw #star trek fanart #cookies #my doodles

[compacflt]

I know you said that you aren't the pinnacle of military knowledge that people think you are but know a damsite more than I do about the US military than I do, so I have a question. Do you have any idea how long the Darkstar project would've been going on for in canon? It can't have been a few months but I also don't know if it would be years and years? I know Mav has an award for being a test pilot that I think is dated 2007 (I may have imagined that) but that doesn't mean the Darkstar project was going on for over ten years? I think the F-18A took 8 years from testing to being approved, so it can't be far off. Just wanted your opinion. Thanks :-)

awright here’s my opinion (not an expert)

the darkstar is canonically a Lockheed Martin “skunk works” (super duper secret) surveillance and reconnaissance (SR) spyplane, as evidenced by the skunk works logo on the vertical stabilizer (left is darkstar, right is me with the SW logo on the SR-71 blackbird at the udvar-hazy museum this summer).

we can look to see how long other SW projects have taken to develop in the past. the SR-71, for instance, was first suggested as an “undetectable spyplane” idea in 1957. the lockheed A-12 oxcart, which would provide the framework for the SR-71, had its first flight in 1962, five years later. the finished SR-71 was introduced into USAF and CIA service in 1966. so a 9-year development for the fastest-ever air-breathing jet, with 4-ish of those years being flight testing (ish because the A-12 had to be heavily adapted into the SR-71 which had its first flight in 1964).

Lockheed’s been teasing its blackbird successor, the unmanned aerial vehicle the SR-72 “son of blackbird,” on its socials recently. i saw someone say: “soft-launching its new death machine like an instagram influencer with a new boyfriend”

leading many to believe this is what happened

note however that the SR-72 son of blackbird is an UNMANNED aerial vehicle (UAV) which is why in my fic I specifically said this

note also that most of aircraft development is just that—development. Flight testing (i.e. where mav would get hands-on involved) doesn’t come until very very late in the development process. For the plot of my fic’s sake I had mav go out to NAWS china lake in 2003, but in TGM during the Hard Deck scene Penny says something to the effect of “you got sent out to the desert three years ago for pissing off that other admiral” and mav goes “that was three years ago? 😀” (cute!) so that’s the longest mav could’ve canonically been involved with the darkstar project. (For my own purposes i made it like a year, for those two sections of the story to neatly flow into each other—from 2015ish to 2016. I know TGM takes place in 2020 [i know but idfc] Maybe LockMart has had this tech [probably not high hypersonic like in the movie] for that long anyway and it’s just been so heavily classified that we didn’t know about it till very recently. Definitely possible.)

#i took a picture of the A-12 oxcart at the intrepid museum in NYC but it’s not a selfie so not posting it #i saw it and i was like ‘uh you’re not supposed to just be able to see these’ #they have the enterprise space shuttle too it was just fucking insane #military aviation #sr-72 #pete maverick mitchell #top gun maverick #edts notes #thank you for the ask! really not an expert but talking about planes is fun for me #the hypersonic race is very interesting… Russia famously has its hypersonic kinzhal missiles and i think CN has them too #but the U.S. has never openly done hypersonics which is why IMO it would be crazy to start off with a manned jet like in TGM #and it’s not clear how useful or effective hypersonic missiles actually are in warfare #* i think I mean specifically air breathing jet hypersonics #obviously icbms and rockets (which fly at hypersonic speeds) are different

[sukimas]

everybody's like ohhhhhhhhhhh i'm gonna reuse my spacecraft ohhhh it'll be great. buddy that is a missile with a guy on it nobody is ever reusing a spacecraft in an economically feasible way. not NASA not spacex not anyone else

#my favorite space shuttle orbiter is discovery #oldest one that didn't explode plus i got to see it up close #massive waste of money. i love her. #*enterprise doesn't count it couldn't fly

[nosusuishin]

Suriya’s favorite space shuttle

#comic #original comic #original character #uss enterprise #space shuttle #art

[daniwib]

Fanart for an amazing fic that is criminally underrated considering how good it is.

Find it on Ao3 via here

#US Navy Aviator Evan “Buck” Buckley #Outer Space #ISS | International Space Station #Enterprise (the shuttle not the Star Trek craft) #Bamf! Buck #Hurt Buck #buck whump #worried eddie #worried firefam #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #9-1-1 #whump #911 #angst #911 buddie #buddie fanart #911 fox #9-1-1 fanfiction #evan buck buckley

[lonestarflight]

Space Shuttle Enterprise on SLC-6 launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Photographed by George R. Fry

Date: February 20, 1985

UCLA Library Digital Collections: uclalat_1429_b3279_301653

#Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Enterprise #OV-101 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Vandenberg Air Force Base #California #SLC-6 #February #1985 #my post

[roguetoo]

#star trek #enterprise #space shuttle

[lycrabustier]

JLP/PT lookin gorgeous 

From Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special, 1991, VHS

#star trek #star trek the next generation #vhs #foundfootage #jean luc picard #space shuttle #nasa #enterprise #patrick stewart

[deidara1444]

2 painting on canvas 1st picture: graphite (sketch), watercolor, metalic watercolor, tempera, felt pen, ink. 2nd picture: watercolor On the 1st picture: - Pillars of Creation, - James Web Space Telescope, - Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101), - Insigna of the Apollo-13, lunar landing mission, - Jupiter, - HMS Enterprise, - a compass drawing. On the 2nd picture: underwater, watercolor

#Pillars of Creation #James Web #space telescope #Space #shuttle #Enterprise #ov-101 #Apollo 13 #Jupiter #watercolor #painting #compass #underwater #deidara1444

[nocternalrandomness]

Enterprise on a mobile launch platform at Vandenberg Space Launch Complex Six - March 20 1981

#NASA #Space Shuttle #Enterprise #Vandenberg AFB #Space Launch Complex Six #mobile launch platform #spacecraft #Orbiter #spaceflight #Slick 6