The mouse controls are a bit too lax on that thing, tried to turn slightly and it began spinning.

/shut it down as I felt a headache coming on...

Remember when the US used to be able to launch people to space, let alone the moon? With the way things are going at NASA, kids today will soon be able to truthfully answer "No."

How else are we gonna justify the ISS?

Without the ISS, how are we gonna justify the SS?

Profit!

Goodbye money-wasting low-orbit PR boondoggle that prevented us from spending money on actual space science.

MrSteve007: Remember when the US used to be able to launch people to space, let alone the moon? With the way things are going at NASA, kids today will soon be able to truthfully answer "No."

That's what happens when you let politicians decide what vehicles to use, rather then engineers. Ares was a multi-billion dollar go nowhere project, and SLS seems to be the same way.

Luckily, the commercial folks are starting to get their act together, and Space X has orbited two vehicles so far, with a third coming soon.

Hopefully, they get a man rated version up in the next few years, and everything will be cool again.

Bookmarked! Great find subby!

Why the big Canada sticker?

dkoucky: Why the big Canada sticker?

Canadarm. (new window) The big multi-jointed arm that they used to move everything around in the cargo bay.

Thanks!

Fake space ship is fake. There's no way they could fly that thing. You can't even see out the windows.

What are those bags on the upper aft flight deck numbered 1 through 7? I assume they're emergency breathing apparatus or somesuch.

...I swear I heard "Taps" playing for a moment there.

So...many....buttons....must push them......ALL!

Jurodan: The mouse controls are a bit too lax on that thing, tried to turn slightly and it began spinning.

/shut it down as I felt a headache coming on...

It is accelerometer-enabled so it was pretty cool on my iPad, like it was a window into another dimension where the space shuttle is in the same place as my kitchen. It was kind of lax, it kept going down and to the left very slowly.

Wonder what the purpose of the hatch with the hand-lettered "special" tag was?

I don't know if this works with the android, but I just looked at it on my iPhone and if you move your phone the image moves with it. The website is somehow connecting to the gyroscope in the phone. That is awesome.

You simply just don't cancel your only STS (space transportation system) when you have NOTHING new in the hanger!

hartigan: I don't know if this works with the android, but I just looked at it on my iPhone and if you move your phone the image moves with it. The website is somehow connecting to the gyroscope in the phone. That is awesome.

That motion feature doesn't work on Android but the page still works fine. Just scroll your figure around the image to move. Zoom doesn't work though.

Question:

Anyone know what the velcro patches all over the place are for?

A pre-emptive thank you to all the smartasses, I know the patches are to hold things. But I wonder
exactly what things they hold.

Anyone?

ssdNOLA75: A pre-emptive thank you to all the smartasses, I know the patches are to hold things. But I wonder
exactly what things they hold.

Anyone?


Clipboards, pencils, urine bags. Food bags. Just about anything.

//urine bags were gone before the shuttle program, though.

SevenizGud: How else are we gonna justify the ISS?

Without the ISS, how are we gonna justify the SS?

Profit!



They're already there...

MrSteve007: Remember when the US used to be able to launch people to space, let alone the moon? With the way things are going at NASA, kids today will soon be able to truthfully answer "No."

The way things are going kids will be able to do it themselves.

Caelistis: I have to say that I am very sad to see our last space borne vehicle retire from service with no viable, committed to replacement in the near and mid-term future.

I grew up watching these launch on TV as often as I could and each time was awesome, even the Challenger explosion, in a way that is deeply elemental, emotional and a point of pride not for just being an American, but for seeing the human race get off this slowly circling rock.

Well said.

I grew up in Florida, and immensely regret not seeing a Shuttle launch in person. Watched them on TV all the time, and saw a few go up in the distance. Whatever manned thing we launch next, I'll be there, if I have to fly halfway around the world to get back.

I don't see a single cup holder. And where is the margarita blender?

Glad to see they didn't strip out all the instruments, at least not yet. Most of them are probably custom and useless for anything else anyway. They are actually removing the entire propulsion systems from the orbiters to use in the first tests and possibly even flights of the Space Launch System. All of the still flyable reusable space shuttle main engines will be used as expendables and when those are gone they'll build cheaper single-use versions of them.

When the retired orbiters are finally on display, they'll be gutted almost to the same extent as the prototype orbiter Enterprise: fake engines bolted onto all of them and no hardware in the aft fuselage. However the flown orbiters will show their wear and tear on their real thermal protection tiles and blankets, while Enterprise has its clean simulated heat tiles.

The main event I'm excited about is seeing Enterprise flown on top of the 747 for the first time in 27 years.

http://www.spaceshuttleguide.com/system/

A little guide if you are want to figure out what a panel or switch does. You will have to dig a bit, and have some knowledge of what you are looking at.

Anyone know when this will actually be landing at dulles I've heard three different dates in April now.

/will be there

wm734: Anyone know when this will actually be landing at dulles I've heard three different dates in April now.

/will be there

Discovery's ferry flight is April 17. Discovery, Enterprise, and the SCA will be at Dulles for weeks until the cranes used to unload Discovery and load Enterprise are moved to JFK ahead of Enterprise's ferry flight. So Enterprise's takeoff from Dulles should be sometime in May.

Thanks for the reply I wanna see it land on the back of the sca. last chance to see it.