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The International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavor streak across the sky north of Goleta at 9:31 to 9:35 PM on the evening of August 20. The two streaks end where the space ships enter the shadow of the Earth.
Time lapse movie of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavor. The action has been speeded up by a factor of 25x.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis departed from Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base on 747 Carrier Aircraft NASA Nine Zero Five at 6:04 A.M. PDT Sunday, July 1, 2007. It is returning to the Kennedy Space Center.
The Space Shuttle Discovery departed from Runway 22 at Edwards Air Force Base on 747 Carrier Aircraft NASA Nine Oh Five at 8:31 A.M. PDT this morning. It is returning to the Kennedy Space Center. It landed at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma at 1:31 P.M. CDT. It arrived at Barksdale Air Force Base at 5:46 P.M. CDT. The shuttle remained at Barksdale Air Force Base on Saturday and continued to the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, arriving at 10:00 A.M. EDT. Discovery is scheduled to perform the next Space Shuttle mission in March.
Here is a retrospective of the career of the first Space Shuttle, OV-101 Enterprise, which was used for five test flights of the last phases of the approach to landing at Edwards Air Force Base in 1977. It was often displayed at the Edwards Air Force Base open house in the early 1980s.
The loss of the Space Shuttle
Columbia and her intrepid crew is a global tragedy. By way of
a memorial to the crew of Columbia, I am posting my photographs
of Columbia taken at Edwards Air Force Base and Air Force Plant
42 at Palmdale, California.
The Space Shuttle Discovery
departed Edwards AFB on November 2, 2000 to return to the Kennedy
Space Center. The X-38 Space Station Lifeboat parachute recovery
system was also tested the same morning.
The space
shuttle orbiter Columbia, OV-102 was delivered to Air Force
Plant 42 at Palmdale, California on Saturday, September 25 on the
back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA).
You can buy 8"x10" or 11"x14" prints of my photo of Space Shuttle Discovery and Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, N905NA at Edwards Air Force Base on August 19, 2005.
Customize your framed print of Space Shuttle Discovery and Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, N905NA at the LockettBooks Store at Lulu.com.
You can buy 8"x10" or 11"x14" prints of my photo of Space Shuttle Atlantis departs Edwards Air Force Base, July 1, 2007 from the LockettBooks Store at Lulu.com. Prints are available unframed, framed, or matted and framed (8"x10" only).
Customize your framed print of Space Shuttle Atlantis and 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at the LockettBooks Store at Lulu.com.
You can buy a 2008 Calendar featuring my photographs of Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Calendar has been revised to include the take-off of Discovery on 747-SCA, N905NA from Edwards Air Force Base following the STS-114 mission on August 19, 2005.
A dozen photos of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. Events depicted include:
747-SCA N905NA/Enterprise Approach and Landing Test 1 take-off on August 12, 1977.
747-SCA N905NA/Enterprise Approach and Landing Test 4 rollout and take-off on October 12, 1977.
747-SCA N905NA/Columbia delivery take-off on March 20, 1979.
747-SCA N905NA/Challenger static and departure take-off on July 4, 1982.
747-SCA N905NA/Enterprise static display at Vandenberg Air Force Base Airshow on November 14, 1984.
Antonov An-225 Mriya CCCP-82060/Buran at the Paris Airshow on June 18, 1989.
747-SCA N911NA/Endeavor delivery take-off from Palmdale on May 2, 1991.
747-SCA N905NA/Columbia landing at Palmdale on September 25, 1999.
747-SCA N905NA/Discovery take-off on August 19, 2005.
747-SCA N905NA/Atlantis take-off on July 1, 2007.
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