Endeavour which flew its final flight on STS-134 is now in OPF-2 (Orbiter Processing Facility 2) where it is being readied for being turned over to the California Science Museum in September 2012. As NASA did with the shuttle Discovery, the media was invited to have a look around on March 7, 2012 including visits [...]
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The Endeavour / On board, and a discussion of Shuttle Tile maintenance
Posted in atlantis, discovery, endeavour, johnson space center, orbiter processing facility #2, shuttle hangar, space shuttle, STS-134, tagged atlantis, buddy mckenzie, Discovery, endeavour, interview, johnson space center, kennedy space center, maintenance, pete crow, peter michael crow, problems, replacing shuttle tiles, shuttle ties, smithsonian, space shuttle, water and shuttle tiles, when does the shuttle go to the smithsonian on March 8, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Engines are placed back in Discovery == December 5, 2011
Posted in discovery, orbiter processing facility #1, smithsonian air & space museum, tagged kennedy space center, Discovery, shuttle, dulles, ov-103, smithsonian air & space museum, preparations for museum, when does discovery go to the smithsonian?, engines, shuttle engines, inside the shuttle, engine compartment, installing, removing on December 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
December 5, 2011 … today the first of the three engines of the Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) was reinstalled on the shuttle. It took about four hours. The other two engines were to be installed later in the week. Discovery will go to the Smithsonian at Dulles Airport, Washington, DC. She is expected to be sent [...]
How many shuttles are there? Where will they go?
Posted in atlantis, columbia, discovery, explorer, space shuttle, tagged atlantis, california, california science center, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, edwards air force base, endeavour, houston, how many shuttles?, kennedy space center, los angeles, mission control center, new york, smithsonian, where were the shuttles built? palmdale, where will the shuttles go?, which museums get the shuttles on June 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Where will the shuttles go? How many were built? How many shuttles survive? How many mockups were built? — where are they? What was OV-95? — where did it fly? Five shuttles were built and three survive. The order in which they came into the fleet is as follows: COLUMBIA = OV-102 … Columbia broke [...]
