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Boeing 747 Carrier Aircraft N911NA took off with the Space Shuttle Discovery at 6:20 AM PDT on Sunday morning for the ferry flight to the Kennedy Space Center. The first stop will be at Amarillo, Texas. The pair will continue to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana later in the day. They will make the third leg of the flight tomorrow.
The Space Shuttle Discovery was suspended from the Mare/Demate Device at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center as it was prepared for loading aboard the Boeing 747 Carrier Aircraft on Thursday, September 17, 2009.
Bad weather over Florida forced the Space Shuttle Discovery to wave off from its primary landing site and land at Edwards air Force Base in California at the conclusion of mission STS-128 on September 11, 2009.
747-SCA N911NA departed from Runway 04 at Edwards Air Force Base bearing Space Shuttle Endeavour back to Florida at 7:10 AM on Wednesday, December 10. It landed at Biggs Air Force Base, Texas 2 hours and 18 minutes later.
The Space Shuttle Endeavour was suspended under the Mate/Demate Device as it was prepared to be loaded on the 747 Carrier Aircraft at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Canter at Edwards Air Force Base at sunset on Friday, December 5, 2008.
The International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavour 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 Endeavour. 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 58-inch by 100-inch, 48-inch by 72-inch, or 36-inch by 54-inch prints of my photo of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at Edwards AFB. This is an intricately detailed, wide-angle image created with a Gigapan robotic camera mount and Stittcher software.
Prints can be ordered on a variety of materials: Semi-gloss, High-gloss, Canvas, and 15-mil Vinyl. Vinyl prints can be ordered with grommets. Prints are delivered rolled in a sturdy mailing tube. Ground shipping to destinations in the United States is free. Please allow three to four weeks for delivery.
Retailers: This image can also be produced as 24" x 36" posters in bulk by offset lithography. Inquiries are welcome.
You can buy a 2010 calendar featuring my photographs of Space Shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base.
A dozen photographs of the Space Shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base. Bad weather at the Kennedy Space Center caused the Space shuttle Discovery to divert to Edwards Air Force Base at the conclusion of mission STS-128 on September 11, 2009. Following servicing in the Mate/Demate Device, it departed from Edwards on the back of 747 Carrier Aircraft N911NA on September 20.
Put a copy of the Space Shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base: 2010 calendar in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $16.95.
You can buy a 2010 calendar featuring my photographs of Space Shuttle Endeavor at Edwards Air Force Base.
Bad weather caused the Space shuttle Endeavor to divert to Edwards Air Force Base at the conclusion of STS-126 on November 30, 2007. Following servicing in the Mate/Demate Device, it departed from Edwards on the back of 747 Carrier Aircraft N911NA on December 10.
Put a copy of the Space Shuttle Endeavor at Edwards Air Force Base: 2010 calendar in your Lulu.com shopping cart for $16.95.
You can buy a 2010 calendar featuring my photographs of Space Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
A dozen photos of 747 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 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 November 2, 2000.
747-SCA N905NA/Discovery take-off on August 19, 2005.
747-SCA N905NA/Atlantis take-off on July 1, 2007.
747-SCA N911NA/Endeavor take-off on December 10, 2008.
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