Comments on: Space Shuttle

By: brian

brian — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:05:57 +0000

james and alex that shuttle is explorer

By: brian

brian — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:04:33 +0000

larry seymour it is shuttle to tomorrow,a mock-up

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:16:17 +0000

That is the lifesize mock up of an orbiter, external tank and solid rocket boosters at Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex. Altho not real it is pretty impressive. You can go inside the orbiter to see how small the crew module is that the astronauts live in while in orbit. Hopefully when NASA retires the shuttles in 2010 the Visiters Center will get a real shuttle to display. That would be cool. I was actually inside the shuttle Columbia in California and now work at KSC.
And the orbiters are worked on in the OPF Bay 1 2 or 3, not the OPS.
Also the other shuttle mentioned is at the Astronaut Hall of Fame six miles east of the Visitors Center.

By: Jonny Graff

Jonny Graff — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:00:01 +0000

Larry,
That shuttle is called the pathfinder. not flight worthy though unfortunately

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:51:54 +0000

No, this one isn’t real either… it’s at the Space Camp building (I don’t know if it’s still Space Camp)

As a rule, you won’t really see the shuttle on it’s own unless it’s rolling just outside the VAB from OPS or coming in from the runway after landing.

By: Larry Seymour

Larry Seymour — Mon, 30 May 2005 15:58:49 +0000

Here is another space shuttle. Is it real?

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 27 May 2005 15:12:56 +0000

And directly to the north of the VAB you can see both the crawler that takes the shuttle out to the launchpads and, beside it, the platform which it lifts, upon which the shuttle stack is assembled.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:34:11 +0000

Thought you all might want to know: Look at the Vehicle Assembly Building (the huge, bright white building where they put together the space shuttle and its boosters). Now look just a few inches NW of that, where there’s a relatively small, nondescript grey building. It’s long and it has four sections. It’s right above the building that’s shaped like a microphone, which has two yellowish square buildings next to it. That’s where they keep the shuttles between flights.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:07:36 +0000

love it, had to have a wee play with the zoom function at that location.

http://www.cybo.co.uk/2005/04/26/google-launch/

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:51:48 +0000

Oops, thanks guys, not sure how that search term got in the URL! Fixed now