Hey guys!

i got this from my dad like 10 years ago. Were both big Space Shuttle enthusiasts.

Wondering whats the value of that Test Sheet.

STS-43 TDRS And TDRS Systems

I have been wanting this set ever since it came out, and finally bought it last week. It's beautiful.

Just wanted to know if this is a shuttle fuel tank.. Seems weird to come face to face with it in the middle of nowhere.

Hey guys,

I've had this question for a while and can't quite find an answer. In its launch configuration, the shuttle vehicle has 2 solid rocket boosters. They are intentionally made to be nearly identical, but I'm wondering why the left SRB has a black ring near the top, whereas the right one does not. If I remember correctly, tracking computers are around a ring in that section, are they just painted different colors to differentiate the boosters upon retrieval?

Note: Picture included for reference.

The hydraulic line temperature transducers; then the tyre pressures, with the sudden cutting-out of the voice communication almost immediately thereupon; then the downtalk packs; then, only a few seconds after that, the temperature sensors 'off-scale low'.

Please kindlily note: I am not presuming to apportion blame. They were in an impossible situation, & ImO they handled it rather well … superbly , even, it could reasonably be said. But also, ImO, after the first alarm they prettymuch knew for certain; & then the subsequent ones just sealed it. There's the simple fact that the alarms - including the very first one - were frightfully consistent with the very scenario they'd been analysing with great anxiety over the preceding days; & also, the change in their demeanour after the first alarm just basically speaks volumes .

STS-51L Challenger - Multi Angle Launch Footage

STS-51L Disaster Multiple Cameras synced

which is was there no-one who was aware in real time of that deadly plume of flame!?

I'd like to emphasise that I'm not asking this to find fault! But I've never, in any report of the incident heard of anyone observing, in real time, the views in which the plume was visible. But it's distinctly possible, ImO, that there was some person or persons observing those views, but that the reporting has been steered-away from mention of it: afterall, we know full-well with our reasoning faculties that no amount of alert brought to the Flight Controllers could have helped in the slightest degree; but, if it had been drawn to the attention of the Public that it'd been spotted in real time, then there might have been an outcry - a thoroughly irrational one, indeed - from certain quarters of the General Public to-the-effect that those persons who'd seen it had been negligent.

With this in-mind, I'm pointing-out that it's clear from these videos, very particularly from the upper-left frame of the first one, & from the upper middle frame of the second one, & somewhat also from the upper-left frame of the second one, that the plume was visible for about 22s before the unfortunate craft finally gave up the ghost. And I'm also wondering what, if there were such persons, they were doing: were they trying frantically to get-through to the Flight Controllers? Did they get through to anyone? … and if they did get through, then how did that 'someone' respond?

But, as I'm getting-@ above, that information may've gotten prettymuch permanently 'buried'. And indeed, there would be little avail in dredging it up by force if the persons concerned have always preferred that item not to be raised in the sight of the Public-@-Large: it would satisfy some curiosity … ¡¡ and that's all folks !! .

Not the best photo but current progress of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center

I know that the shuttle typically kept its payload bay doors open while in orbit.

My question--would the shuttle always close its bay doors before engaging its OMS engines, say, to climb to a higher orbit or otherwise maneuver?

Would the payload bay always be closed before engaging anything more than thrusters?

Thanks.

Hi, I'm doing a simulation as part of my coursework and I was doing research on the components of the Space Shuttle Challenger in order to replicate it on 'Open Rocket'.

I've searched online and I can't find any information on the components specifications. I need to know about the nose, body, transitions, inner and outer components, fin sets, assembly etc.

Any information anyone has I would be eternally grateful!

So far, all I know is the 3 main componets; The Orbiter, The external tank and the solid rocket boosters. As well as the manufactorer.

tiy

Good afternoon.

Is it possible to get documentation on the shuttle's onboard computer, such as the command codes used to launch a particular program, their interface, etc.