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Showing posts with label space shuttle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space shuttle. Show all posts
Sunday, June 9, 2024

Space Shuttle Enterprise 50 Years

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Above, Enterprise in its maintenance hangar at Edwards Air Force Base in 1977. Photo by Armand Vaquer. It is hard to believe that the start ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

9 Years Ago: Shuttle Endeavor Towed In the Streets of L.A.

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Above, Space Shuttle Endeavor on Manchester Blvd. in Inglewood, California. Photo by Armand Vaquer. While attention is on the western part o...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

"Enterprise" Rollout 45 Years Ago

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The following was posted yesterday on Facebook: It is hard to believe that the rollout took place 45 years ago. I was able to see the Enterp...
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Time-Lapse Video of Space Shuttle Endeavour On The Streets of L.A.

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Above, space shuttle Endeavour being transported on Manchester Blvd. in Inglewood, California to the California Science Center in Expositio...
Friday, March 6, 2020

Places To Celebrate National Space Day

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Above, the space shuttle Endeavour being transported to the California Science Center through the streets of Inglewood, California in 20...
Monday, January 28, 2019

33 Years Since The Challenger Disaster

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Above, the Challenger memorial at Little Tokyo in Los Angeles. Photo by Armand Vaquer. It was one of those events that gets seared in...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Flying Wing and Space Shuttle "Columbia"

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After putting the car into the garage for the night, I was rummaging through one moving box and found a metal filing box. I went through ...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Trump and The Space Program

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Above, the shuttle Endeavour being towed in the streets of Inglewood, California in 2012. Photo by Armand Vaquer. Since President Oba...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

January 28, 1986

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Above, STS-51-L crew: (front row) Michael J. Smith, Dick Scobee, Ronald McNair; (back row) Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Ja...
Monday, February 9, 2015

Columbia Landing, July 4, 1982

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Above, space shuttle Columbia with chase planes. Photo by Armand Vaquer. Last July, I posted about attended the landing of space sh...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Edwards Air Force Base 32 Years Ago

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This Independence Day brings to mind another Independence Day that took place 32 years ago. On July 4, 1982, the end of STS-4 with S...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

Obama's Latest Russia Sanctions Threatens ISS Missions

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Above, Endeavour in Inglewood, California en route to its final resting place in Exposition Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer. The recent a...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Space Shuttle Carrier 747 To Be Displayed In Houston

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Above, the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft parked at Edwards Air Force Base in 1977. Photo by Armand Vaquer. Thanks to Barack Obama, another ...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Today In History: Shuttle "Enterprise" Takes First Free Flight In 1977

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Above, Armand with Mitchell Geriminsky pose in front of "Enterprise" in 1977. Source: Intrepid Museum Today in history, th...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

The Griffith Observatory, the Shuttle and Godzilla

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Clamper Gene Dunker sent this photo over via XNGH Glenn Thornhill: