#space shuttle program

[lonestarflight]

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– Space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A is viewed across the lagoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis is targeted to launch May 12 on the STS-125 mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope."

Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller

Date: April 18, 2009

NASA ID: KSC-2009-2756

#STS-125 #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Atlantis #Atlantis #OV-104 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #LC-39A #Kennedy Space Center #Florida #April #2009 #my post

[fuckablerobotbracket]

#fuckablerobotbracket #toyota 8fgcu20 #forklift #canadarm #space shuttle program

[lonestarbattleship]

What could have been had Congress funded the booster for Skylab.

Screenshot from "For all Mankind" link

#for all mankind #Skylab #space shuttle #NASA #spoliers #alt history #space station #Space Shuttle Program #my post

[oldkitty]

"What a treat. And so many things, I can't get. I'm like a little kid with ice cream; I don't know where to start." CMP Ken Mattingly, expressing his joy while getting pictures of the moon on day 4 of Apollo 16's lunar mission. RIP.

Source and credit to: Andy Saunders @AndySaunders_1

S69-62237 (1969) --- Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II.

Source: NASA Johnson

CC BY-NC - Non-Commercial

#ken mattingly #nasa #apollo #STS #space shuttle program

[angelsxgh]

that one interview with sally ride in 1980 is MY roman empire

#sally ride #THE TONGUE THING #good god #aerospace #space #space shuttle program

[an-atlas-or-other]

I dont know why the crew portrait of STS-102 is so funny to me.

Look at it. It's so funny. The stellar editing. The hair. They look like teachers in a high school sitcom. Some of them look like teachers at my high school. I love the way they threw the three pictures together on top of another photo and haphazardly edited in the ISS in the corner like they forgot they had to include it. And something about it is so 70's to me, I don't know why.

#and yes #that was #in fact #a star pun #puns #iss #international space station #space #shitpost #STS-102 #space shuttle #space shuttle program

[lord-of-plants]

STS my beloathed

#why not #My trash #The space shuttle is garbage and you know it #space shuttle program

[chernobog13]

A cutaway diagram of the space shuttle.

#space shuttle #American space program #cutaway diagram

[nocternalrandomness]

STS-132 - Atlantis - EOM: 26 May 2010 - KSC

#Space Shuttle #Atlantis #STS-132 #Orbiter #NASA #spacecraft #KSC #Kennedy space center #aerospace #space program

[histonics]

#buran #ussr #soviet era #end of the soviet union #soviet union #cosmonaut #soviet space program #energia #space shuttle

[sepdet]

Holy fuck y'all

Flickr account: NASA on the Commons

I haven't seen some of these photos in decades, and some I've never seen, and anyways

Crew of shuttle Atlantis playing peekaboo with crew of old Russian space station Mir (RIP) Nov 24, 1995

Q: why do most space photos showing spacecraft have no stars?

Discovery's maneuvering thrusters angled for pitch up, main engines at low burn, July 6, 2006

Discovery pulling in to dock with ISS, July 6, 2006

Endeavour departs ISS, March 24, 2008— note how bright the shadows are from the sun-glare off clouds.

Discovery over Southwest coast of Morocco as ISS and Discovery bid farewell and take photos of one another for final time on March 7, 2011.

Hint: Is it day or night in these photos?

Astronaut Charles M. Duke drilling, photographed by John W. Young (Hey, he flew on the first space shuttle!) April 21, 1972.

Pilot Harrison Schmidt bagging what they hope is a lava sample, Apollo 17, Dec 13, 1972.

International Space Station taken by Discovery undocking March 25, 2009.

Stars don't show in most photos of spacecraft because sunlight illuminates surfaces far more brightly than distant stars shine. In fact, sunlight in Earth's orbit is brighter in space, since air scatters enough light rays to turn their wavelength blue.

Columbia 😭 liftoff STS-50, June 25, 1992. Gods I miss ya, little sister.

But the sun covers less sky (or, to put it another way, the photons it emits kerp spreading out over an increasingly large sphere of space) for Mars and the outer planets, so its light is dimmer, until it's just another star.

Enhanced contrast version of first image of another planet, Mars by Mariner 3, July 15, 1965. 6 years before you were born doesn't feel that long ago... does it? Does it? How dare it start feeling that way to me! ;)

There's so many more amazing images on that channel, including planets/moons. Go look. Cool stuff.

#nasa #iss #mir #space shuttle #apollo program #the moon #the earth

[lonestarflight]

"Downtown Houston and southern portions of that city form the backdrop for this picture of the Space Transportation System's Challenger flying to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from its California landing site. It is ferried by NASA 905, a modified 747 aircraft. The crew inside the 747 was as follows: Pilot Joseph S. Algranti; Co-pilot Francis R. (Dick) Scobee; Flight Engineers Louis E. (Skip) Guidry Jr. and Glen O. Pingry. The frame was exposed by Bob Gray from the rear station of a nearby T-38 chase plane piloted by David L. Mumme. The Harris County Domed Stadium (Astrodome) can be seen near center."

Date: April 16, 1983

NASA ID: S83-30237

#STS-6 #Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Challenger #Challenger #OV-099 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Boeing 747 #747 #747 SCA #Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Johnson Space Center #Houston #Texas #April #1983 #my post

[fuckablerobotbracket]

#fuckablerobotbracket #wink #wimp witch #canadarm #space shuttle program

[spacecdt]

This rare view shows two Space Shuttles on adjacent pads at Launch Complex 39 with the Rotating Service Structures (RSR) retracted. Space Shuttle Columbia (foreground) is seen on Pad A awaiting STS-35, and Space Shuttle Discovery was beginning preparations on Pad B for STS-41.

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#go for queue deploy #nasa #space shuttle #columbia #discovery #nasa space shuttle #space #spaceflight #space exploration #space is cool #space program #science #engineering #stem #history #historic #rare

[theofficialastronomy101]

#astronomy #nasa #astronomers #universe #astrophotography #nasa photos #astrophysics #outer space #nasawebb #hubble space telescope #telescope #james webb space telescope #space station #space telescopes #space photography #space program #space travel #space science #space shuttle #our universe #earth pics #beautiful earth #planet earth #earth #planetary science #science project #science #scientific illustration #astronomy photography #astronews

[angelsxgh]

currently thinking about: kathy sullivan with a puppy

#kathy sullivan #kathryn d sullivan #nasa #tfng #space shuttle program #aerospace #space