Sunday, August 5, 2012

Approach and Landing Test project medallion from NASA MFA Office

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This week’s artifact is a medallion and certificate that NASA’s Manned Flight Awareness Office issued to employees and contractors upon the...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sally Ride lithograph from NASA and People Weekly magazine

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An inevitable part of ageing is watching time claim your heroes one by one as the years go by. This week, the world lost Dr Sally Ride all t...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Test 5 press kit items from DFRC

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This week I present the press kit from space shuttle Enterprise ’s fifth and final free flight. Before the space shuttle commenced operati...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Test 1 press kit items from DFRC

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Sometimes real-world experience beats anything you can do in simulation. The space shuttle design relied on many bold design decisions, and ...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Space Shuttle Enterprise rollout pass and press kit

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On 12 March 1976, final assembly of NASA’s first space shuttle was completed at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California (n...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Space Shuttle Enterprise insulation sample

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This week, a photo of—and a physical relic from—the prototype Space Shuttle, Enterprise . Construction work on NASA’s first Space Shuttle ...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Early Space Shuttle concept art

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Even before the Apollo program landed astronauts on the moon, NASA began firm plans for a re-usable spacecraft that would make regular trips...