Comments on: The Space Shuttle Columbia http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:35:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jim http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199058 Jim Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:58:07 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199058 According to A Field Guide to American Spacecraft, http://www.americanspacecraft.com , there are six full size, complete models of a space shuttle orbiter. They are: 1) Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, KSC, FL - Explorer Walkthrough model 2) Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, FL - Shuttle to Tomorrow Theater with 'Space Camp' style flight deck 3) Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, IL - America Outside of Imax theater 4) Great Adventure, Prince Edward Island, Canada - Columbia Dorm facilities 5) Space World, Kitakyushu City, Japan - Discovery On full stack, upright 6) (No longer on display) - Ambassador Traveling exhibit Pathfinder at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL may be included on the list (instead of Ambassador), but it is an engineering artifact as opposed to a display model, which all the others are. There are also several partial models, such as the ones at the Cosmosphere in Kansas or Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. I've included 'See it on Google Maps' buttons for most of the rockets and spacecraft displayed outdoors. According to A Field Guide to American Spacecraft, http://www.americanspacecraft.com , there are six full size, complete models of a space shuttle orbiter. They are:

1) Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, KSC, FL - Explorer
Walkthrough model
2) Astronaut Hall of Fame, Titusville, FL - Shuttle to Tomorrow
Theater with ‘Space Camp’ style flight deck
3) Six Flags Great America, Gurnee, IL - America
Outside of Imax theater
4) Great Adventure, Prince Edward Island, Canada - Columbia
Dorm facilities
5) Space World, Kitakyushu City, Japan - Discovery
On full stack, upright
6) (No longer on display) - Ambassador
Traveling exhibit

Pathfinder at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL may be included on the list (instead of Ambassador), but it is an engineering artifact as opposed to a display model, which all the others are. There are also several partial models, such as the ones at the Cosmosphere in Kansas or Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.

I’ve included ‘See it on Google Maps’ buttons for most of the rockets and spacecraft displayed outdoors.

]]> By: Bob E. http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199050 Bob E. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:01:24 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199050 There is a scaled-down (approximately 1/3 size?) model that was presumably used for wind-tunnel testing parked right next to the giant wind-tunnel at the NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Parked nearby are an F-104, and a U-2 (or more precisely, one of NASA's ER-2's), and I believe a Harrier jump-jet. http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=37.415132,-122.063993&z=19 There is a scaled-down (approximately 1/3 size?) model that was presumably used for wind-tunnel testing parked right next to the giant wind-tunnel at the NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Parked nearby are an F-104, and a U-2 (or more precisely, one of NASA’s ER-2’s), and I believe a Harrier jump-jet.

Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

]]> By: Timothy http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199034 Timothy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:25:15 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199034 Why not have one built for you? http://www.spacetoys.com/proddetail.php?prod=RFS13 You even get free shipping! Why not have one built for you?

http://www.spacetoys.com/proddetail.php?prod=RFS13

You even get free shipping!

]]> By: Phil http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199030 Phil Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:56:52 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199030 There's a second model/mock-up at Kennedy - here: lat/lng:28.527245,-80.782412 There’s a second model/mock-up at Kennedy - here: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

]]> By: Amio Cajander http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199027 Amio Cajander Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:21:00 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199027 Unluckily this "home made beauty" is below tree canopies. http://academiacajander.blogspot.com/2006/03/encuentros-en-la-tercera-fase.html Unluckily this “home made beauty” is below tree canopies.

http://academiacajander.blogspot.com/2006/03/encuentros-en-la-tercera-fase.html

]]> By: Chet http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199026 Chet Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:25:56 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199026 Huntsville one: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ie=UTF8&ll=34.710812,-86.652834&spn=0.001976,0.005021&z=18 Huntsville one: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

]]> By: Melissa http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199022 Melissa Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:56:53 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199022 In Huntsville, AL there's another replica that was used to test road clearances and fits within structures - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Pathfinder" rel="nofollow">Space Shuttle Pathfinder</a>. Not sure if that's the type replica you were referring to though. It's only on display, visitors can't enter it or anything. In Huntsville, AL there’s another replica that was used to test road clearances and fits within structures - Space Shuttle Pathfinder.

Not sure if that’s the type replica you were referring to though. It’s only on display, visitors can’t enter it or anything.

]]> By: dr.R. http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199021 dr.R. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:52:16 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199021 Quite a remote place to establish a “Great Island Science and Adventure Park”, I would say. But the people over there have an eye for detail: if, at the end of the road you find out it is a dead end, you can at least turn around: http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=46.460584,-63.446544&z=18 Of course they could also put a sign at the beginning... Quite a remote place to establish a “Great Island Science and Adventure Park”, I would say. But the people over there have an eye for detail: if, at the end of the road you find out it is a dead end, you can at least turn around: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth

Of course they could also put a sign at the beginning…

]]> By: 433 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199020 433 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:50:41 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199020 One of the others is at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.525119,-80.680335&spn=0.001612,0.003441&t=h&z=19" rel="nofollow">Here it is</a>. One of the others is at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Placemark: Here it is / Google Earth.

]]> By: Ben http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199019 Ben Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:12:38 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/02/21/the-space-shuttle-columbia/#comment-199019 I was about to say the same http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=42.37007,-87.938135&z=19 Anyone for Rollercoast Tycoon? I was about to say the same
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Anyone for Rollercoast Tycoon?

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