Preparing for Launch, and Launch Video of Rollover from Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF = hangar), Lift-to-Mate in the Vehicle Assembly Building, Rollout to Launch Pad 39-A, and Launch . HERE. . Click the link. I mean it. Do it now. There is no sound until the launch in the final seconds. (this link courtesy of [...]
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OPF to VAB to Pad 39-A to Launch … & then Views of the Earth
Posted in NASA/ men in space, space shuttle, tagged atlantis, Discovery, earth views, kennedy space center, ksc, launch, lift to mate, nasa, opf, orbiter processing facility, pad 39 A, rollout, rollover, space shuttle, VAB, vehicle assembly building, video, view from space, view of the earth on June 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
STS-133 has returned to the Launch Pad
Posted in NASA/ men in space, space shuttle, sts-133, tagged 39A, crawler, Discovery, is discovery on the launch pad, kennedy space center, latest launch information, launch date, pad 39A, roll-out, sts-133, sts-134, VAB, vehicle assembly building on November 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(<<< CLICK to ENLARGE — the thumbnail at left is a former blog header) Discovery, bathed in lights, is seen near center in long view against clear, black Florida night as she headed toward Launch Pad 39A at 9:10pm Monday, January 31, 2011. The Crawler, on which the shuttle rides, moves about a mile an [...]
Skylab to the Space Shuttle & STS-133
Posted in NASA/ men in space, skylab, space shuttle, sts-133, tagged Discovery, nasa, orbiter, skylab, space shuttle, sts-133 on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In the years following the truncated end of the Apollo program in December 1972, NASA found itself with excess hardware intended for later Apollo missions, and not much money to go fly again. Worse, the landing on the Moon had been an all-encompassing goal, as political as scientific, and once accomplished, interest in NASA waned [...]
The last time Man landed on the Moon =3=
Posted in NASA/ men in space, tagged 1960s, 1960s 1972 apollo 17 december 7 eyewitness gemini program history houston kennedy space center landing on the Moon manned space flight mercury program mission control nasa petecrow race to the moon sp, 1972, apollo 17, cape canaveral, kennedy space center on March 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
(This is a series of remembrances that will lead up to the final launch of the shuttle now secheduled for September 2010 – I’ve started with Apollo, but will work my way through Skylab and the Shuttle programs) The Scene The television networks were in separate buildings northerly from a grandstand where print press was [...]
The last time Man landed on the Moon =2=
Posted in NASA/ men in space, tagged 1960s, 1972, apollo 17, december 7, eyewitness, gemini program, history, houston, kennedy space center, landing on the Moon, manned space flight, mercury program, mission control, nasa, race to the moon, space shuttle, sts-131 on March 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
(This is a series of remembrances that will lead up to the final launch of the shuttle now secheduled for September 2010 – I’ve started with Apollo, but will work my way through Skylab and the Shuttle programs) December 6, 1972 / Kennedy Space Center, Florida … After picking up my credentials, I had to [...]
NASA / The last time Man landed on the Moon =1=
Posted in NASA/ men in space, tagged 1960s, 1972, apollo 17, december 7, eyewitness, history, houston, kennedy space center, landing on the Moon, manned space flight, mission control, nasa, race to the moon, space shuttle on March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sometime in 2011, if all goes as planned, the United States will launch the final mission of the Space Shuttle and, thereafter, this country will no longer have a vehicle to carry men and women into space. The last four missions of the Space Shuttle, the next of which, STS-131, are scheduled to launch on [...]
About the NASA tales …
Posted in NASA/ men in space, tagged apollo 17, nasa, petecrow, space shuttle, sts-131 on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The NASA tales are about NASA, Apollo 17, Skylab and the Space Shuttle. The story begins at 12:33 am on December 7, 1972, when Man set sail for the Moon for the final time in the 20th century. It happens that I was there.
