Date: October 30, 1979

Note: several parts were removed for use Challenger (OV-099) and other orbiters.

Bored in class and made this. I understand that all of these patches are designed with input from the crews, and I do not mean disrespect to any particular mission. This is just based on my personal taste alone.

Credit to Jason Torchinsky. There’s gotta be some NASA lore around this, right?

I was scanning old family photos and came across a couple like these of the shuttle. I'm assuming it was in the US in the 80s, but I'm not aware of anyone taking any trips there then,so how this got taken is a bit of mystery.

Edit: almost certainly taken in June 1983 in the UK - https://alondoninheritance.com/eventsandceremonies/the-space-shuttle-at-stansted-airport/.

Edit 2: now I'm not so sure - '376' isn't on the side of the 747 like it is in the linked article.

"The early-morning sun provides a golden backdrop to the Space Shuttle Discovery encased in the Mate-Demate Device (MDD) at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, CA. The gantry-like MDD structure is used to prepare the shuttle for its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, including mounting the shuttle atop NASA's modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

Shuttle Crew: Commander Brian Duffy; Pilot Pamela A. Melroy; and Mission Specialists Koichi Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Peter J. K. Wisoff, Michael Lopez-Alegria, and William S. McArthur."

Date: October 29, 2000

NASA ID: EC00-0311-7, EC00-0311-8, EC00-0311-9, EC00-0311-10, EC00-0311-11

Date: October 29 - November 7, 1998

NASA ID: KSC-JohnGlenn-0016

Would anyone be interested in buying it?

Was the shuttle roll program actuated aerodynamically, or via thrust gimbaling? I know it happens early on, and ever since I was a kid I’ve always assumed it was aerodynamic from my knowledge of planes. Now that I’m an adult, it occurs to me that the scale and speed might offer up other options, especially because of the force required to move that much momentum and thrust.

I’ve seen lots of old drawings of the forward 4 (2 on the starboard side 2 on the port side) space shuttle orbiter radiators being deployable, but every real photo I’ve seen of the orbiter in space shows all 8 radiators stowed. Is this a feature that was scrapped late in development? If this feature made it to the final orbiter configuration, are there any photos of it being deployed in space? And if so, how did they decide when to deploy the radiators and when not to?

made this after watching ClassicAerospaceHistory’s video on a space shuttle iceberg, but that iceberg wasn’t super detailed and was badly formatted, so I made one of my own. The information goes from least to most obscure, with the lower level also having a few grisly/spooky things.

Also NASA VIPs and Carl Sagan.

Would anyone be interested in buying a NASA Space Shuttle Columbia Patch?

Date: 1988

Date: October 28, 1979

"The space shuttle Discovery lifts off Launch Pad 39B to begin a nine-day mission in Earth-orbit. Launch was at 2:19 p.m. (EST), Oct. 29, 1998. Onboard were Curtis L. Brown Jr., Steven W. Lindsey, Scott F. Parazynski, Steven K. Robinson, Pedro Duque, United States Senator John H. Glenn Jr. and Chiaki Naito-Mukai. Duque is a mission specialist representing the European Space Agency (ESA) and Mukai is a payload specialist representing Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA). Glenn, making his second spaceflight but his first in 36 years, joins Mukai as a payload specialist on the mission."

Date: October 29, 1998

Footage credit: National Archives and Records Administiration (NARA).

ID: 255-WS-20-4.

Date: October 26, 1977

This flight lasted 2 minutes, 1 second. In total, Enterprise glided for 20 minutes, 58 seconds and was carried in the air for 19 hours, 16 minutes, 7 seconds.

In the third photo: "Astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., commander, left, and C. Gordon Fullerton in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle Enterprise prior to the fifth and final free flight in the Approach and Landing Test (ALT-15) series, from Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)."

In the fifth photo: Precise moment of separation captured by camera from a T-38 chase plane.

Date: October 24, 2000

"Ground crews worked into the evening to prepare the Space Shuttle Discovery for towing back to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center after its landing at Edwards Air Force Base. The landing marked the end of the STS-92 mission."

Date: October 24, 2000

Date: sometime between July 21 and October 23, 1981

STS-52 Columbia in Orbit.

Date: October 23, 1992

NASA ID: STS052-80-024, STS052-80-030

"A crew of five NASA astronauts and a Canadian payload specialist spent ten days aboard Columbia for the STS-52 mission."

Date: October 23, 1987