|
Photo ID: 1120369
|
Views: 75441
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-104 (cn OV-104) 11:14:55 a.m. - "LIFTOFF!!! 3...2...1...and liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis...opening a new chapter in the completion of the International Space Station...for the future of collaboration of nations in space. " -- NASA |
| | | | | | | |  |
|
Photo ID: 1624793
|
Views: 19434
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-104 (cn OV-104) "Atlantis" trails vapor and causes her own cloud effect as she continues through her energy management system that bleeds of the excess speeds prior to the 200+ MPH engine off touchdown. Here she is in the 2nd heading alignment cylinder with tail brake open. As it nears the landing site, the orbiter is steered into the nearest of two heading alignment circles called HACs. Each has a radius of 18,000 ft. The orbiter is now in subsonic flight, at 49,000 ft., and about 22 mile from its touchdown point. |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1590319
|
Views: 55140
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
AV-010 NASA's New Horizons probe, the world's first mission to Pluto, gets underway with the launch of a 20-story Atlas 5 rocket from LC-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, 2:00pm EST January 19, 2006. Riding three million lbs of thrust on the fastest depature from Earth in history, the plutonium-powered New Horizons will reach Pluto in 2015. |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1585299
|
Views: 210876
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
Delta 4-Heavy roars into orbit with DSP-23, the final Defense Support Program missile-warning satellite, at 8:50pm EST from Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, November 10, 2007. Delta 4-Heavy, over 23 stories tall, is the world's largest rocket by height and most powerful unmanned booster. |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1292215
|
Views: 24520
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-103 (cn OV-103) "Discovery" rolls the last few hundred yards to a full wheel stop at 1:01:18 p.m. EST at the end of a 6.2 million mile mission spanning 15 days, 2 hours, 23 minutes. STS-120 added a key component to the ISS. Welcome home to Florida! |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1295824
|
Views: 37681
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-103 (cn OV-103) At dusk, a strange looking convoy leaves the KSC Shuttle Landing strip and heads towards the heart of KSC at a crawl. A tractor tow vehicle pulls Discovery along a two mile tow-way from the SLF to the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF), a structure similar in design to a sophisticated aircraft hangar, where processing Discovery for another flight begins. Note the texture of the orbiter's surface in the unusual green lighting of the convoy. A few hours ago, she was on fire and plunging to Earth. |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1077629
|
Views: 278835
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-103 (cn OV-103) Nose Gear Touchdown at 9:14:53 a.m. EDT. Commander Lindsey and Pilot Mike Kelly work in the cockpit to bring Discovery to a "wheels stop" at 9:15:49 a.m. EDT. "Wheels stopped, Houston," Lindsey radioed mission control [Canon 1Ds MkII;600mm f/4 IS L;ISO 400;1/1000] |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1169961
|
Views: 39197
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-103 (cn OV-103) Discovery being rolled up the hill to Pad 39B for STS-114 |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1161235
|
Views: 27342
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-103 (cn OV-103) Orbital vehicle "Discovery" sits attached to her fuel tank (orange) and two solid rocket boosters (white) while the crew access arm is fixed. The "white room" is clearly seen here. Also, the fuel lines that run down the tank and enter the orbiter by the rear gear doors is seen. It is sunrise on the first launch day (scrub due to clouds at KSC during launch window which would have prevented an abort to the KSC runway hence the "no go"). STS - 116 mission to the ISS. [Canon 1Ds Mk II] |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 0223216
|
Views: 97895
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-102 (cn OV-102) Space Shuttle Columbia (mission STS-109) entering and illuminating a small layer of clouds. |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1156963
|
Views: 31705
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-103 (cn OV-103) "On be half of the whole crew, we want to thank you, your launch team and all the men and women working on the NASA team, you're all going to be with us tonight going to orbit. We look forward to lighting up the night sky and rewiring ISS. See you in a few weeks!" said by CDR Mark Polansky. This photograph was taken the moment after the launch when the Discovery starts the roll program. As it turned out to be my first night launch photography, as you can see, it seems that I could capture something! |
| | | | | | | | |
|
Photo ID: 1109464
|
Views: 43497
|
Aircraft
|
Location & Date
|
|
|
|
| Remark |
| Photographer |
|
|
OV-104 (cn OV-104) "Atlantis" sits on Pad 39B the night before the second scrub. She is primed and ready to go on STS-115. The RSS structure just rolled back unveiling her. Atlantis, the fourth orbiter to become operational at Kennedy Space Center, was named after the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts from 1930 to 1966. Note the ground crew still on the mobile platform putting the finishing touches using a crane. |
| | | | | | | | | | | |
Sponsor Message: 
Contact
Link to me!
Sponsor Message: 
