Space Shuttle Fans

[kkeenan 14]

A very nice video of the STS 134 launch of Endeavour, produced by the Ascent Imagery group at JSC, NASA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7ZBp4HXQA

Enjoy.

[david3 0]

Wow!

[pttsburg 0]

Awesome vid....thanks for posting

[SkydiveJack 1]

Thanks for posting this Kevin!

What is the story on the SRB parachute that we see split from base to apex during its final reefing?

[oldwomanc6 52]

Beautiful video! Thanks for finding this and posting

lisa
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[jceman 1]

... words fail me ...

our tax dollars at work at their best - stunning vid

[jrmrangers 0]

Awesome video!! IM so excited , ill be in florida for the last shuttle launch and im going to do everything in my power to be on a shuttle jump!!!

Wait , I pull what first?

[Amazon 7]

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A very nice video of the STS 134 launch of Endeavour, produced by the Ascent Imagery group at JSC, NASA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7ZBp4HXQA

Enjoy.

Good Stuff..... thanks

[billvon 2,989]

Always was sort of disappointed they didn't haul the ET's to orbit and use them for living/lab/storage space, building material and reaction mass. Would have been a big reduction in the number of launches they needed to build the ISS.

[Beerlight 0]

Beautiful....! Sad to see it end.

[clintster 0]

My favorite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mitoR2I7P_o

Thank you kkenan for every thing you do.

[champu 1]

Are you on the ISS payload processing side of things or are you on the shuttle SE&I / LSI side of things?

[shropshire 0]

Fan-bleeding-tastic

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[kkeenan 14]

Here's a nice photo looking into the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) for STS-135. This module holds about 20,000 lbs. of supplies, and looks like a very big beer can. It is removed from the Shuttle's Payload Bay, and docked onto one of the hatches of the Space Station, where it is unloaded. This is the final closeout photo. All cargo has been loaded, and, following hatch closure, the MPLM will be headed to the pad next week to be loaded onto Atlantis for her final trip.

When I say "nice", I mean that it's a great photo, and it's good that the loading is done. It's not nice that there will probably never be a spacecraft in my lifetime that will provide the capabilities to our space program that the Shuttle has provided. Oh well, nice while it lasted...

Kevin K.

[warpedskydiver 0]

It was one of the best trucks ever invented.

[wmw999 2,439]

Dunno about that; it was the first space truck, and we learned a lot about what to do, and some about what not to do, in building and operating it.

Normally the cost of building something isn't so high that we can't try again soon with an improved design. But even the later shuttle had to be built to (largely) the same specs because of the huge amount of processing that goes on around a shuttle flight.

One big problem is that people aren't very good at using formal records of lessons learned to not make the same mistakes again. It normally takes seeing one's own blood on the overhang to remember that it's there and not bonk your head.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)