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• #NASA SPACE SHUTTLE PHOTO SERIES#

We had to keep them safe for spaceflight" and so couldn't allow much outside access, said Lisa Fowler, a NASA spokesperson at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "When the shuttles were flying, workers had to maintain the integrity and cleanliness of the vehicles. ( Video: Replay the very last space shuttle launch.) NASA and United Space Alliance, the agency's prime contractor for servicing the shuttles, made the interactive panoramas possible by granting news organizations unprecedented access to the hundred-ton spaceships after each final shuttle flight.

(The Society owns National Geographic News.) To provide an unprecedented look at Discovery and the other retired space shuttles, both inside and out, photographers with National Geographic recently captured more than two dozen ultrahigh-resolution, 360-degree pictures of each orbiter. (See "Space Shuttle Discovery: Final Flight in Pictures.") Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, will host a big outdoor ceremony on Thursday to welcome their new space-worn acquisition.īut once the spaceship is settled into the museum, visitors won't be able to hop into the commander's seat and fiddle with switches-the institution intends to seal up Discovery indefinitely. I kind-of hoped to find an implausibly long or short distance.This week NASA's space shuttle Discovery will fly low over Washington, D.C., atop a jumbo jet and roll into its new permanent home with the Smithsonian Institution.ĭiscovery will touch down at Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, weather permitting, and the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. I guess this is somewhat plausible when compared with the description of the genuine images: "prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station", though it seems quite far away and would require a telescope. Because the apparent size of the moon is approximately 0.5 degrees when camera is anywhere close to earth, we can calculate that the orbiter is $49/251 \cdot 0.5 \approx 0.098 \,\mathrm$. I measured the length of the orbiter as 49 pixels and the diameter of moon as 251 pixels in the image. Some further information on the manipulation or possible genuine situation can be had by analyzing the perspective in the image. 9 2010 the phase was somewhat different (taken from the Heavens Above) Even if some unknown photo of this sequence has captured the moon it seems that for Feb. There are three photos taken laterīut you can see that nowhere you can see stars and moon.

There's no moon or stars in the original. However compared to the actual photo it looks modified. In a very unique setting over Earth's colorful horizon, the silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour is featured in this photo by an Expedition 22 crew member on board the International Space Station, as the shuttle approached for its docking on Feb. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space. This orange layer gives way to the whitish Stratosphere and then into the Mesosphere. The orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. The orbital outpost was at 46.9 south latitude and 80.5 west longitude, over the South Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern Chile with an altitude of 183 nautical miles when the image was recorded. The image was photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member prior to STS-130 rendezvous and docking operations with the International Space Station.

#NASA SPACE SHUTTLE PHOTO SERIES#

Though astronauts and cosmonauts often encounter striking scenes of Earth's limb, this very unique image, part of a series over Earth's colorful horizon, has the added feature of a silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour. This image is very similar to the following image