2. Aeroplanes

Air and Space Museum Part VI

Documenting my visit to the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center
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National Air and Space MuseumSteven F UdvarHazy CenterShuttle Discovery

  • The very front of the shuttle looks, in this shot, like the face of a mouse, complete with large up-turned nose and front teeth hanging down.
  • A very impressive machine, especially when one considers it has been to and from low orbit 39 times, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled 150 million miles.
  • The cost to build a shuttle is somewhere between $1 billion and $1.7 billions, and it cost $450 million to launch. This particular shuttle is the Space Shuttle Discovery. After the loss of each of its two sister ships (Challenger and Columbia), Discovery was the "return to space" shuttle.
  • It's also the shuttle that deployed the Hubble Telescope, and the shuttle that took John Glenn back to space, making him the oldest person to go into space (he was 77 at the time).
  • There is a lot of stuff in the same room as the Shuttle.
  • Not only on the ceiling . . .
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  • . . . but all around as well.<br /> <br /> The Mercury Capsule 15B (Freedom 7 II)
  • Comparative size of various rockets used in the past, and sometimes still used.
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  • The Gemini VII capsule
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  • Of interest were the things hanging from the ceiling. I looked them up. Most are weather and climate observation satellites.
  • Item No. 1 - Explorer 1. <br /> Item No. 2 - Explorer 6. <br /> Item No. 3 - Explorer 7. <br /> Item No. 4 - Explorer 8. <br /> Item No. 5 - Explorer 10.<br /> Item No. 6 - Explorer 12. <br /> Item No. 7 - Explorer 17.<br /> Item No. 8 - Explorer 18. <br /> Item No. 9 - Vanguard 2.<br /> Item No. 10 - Vanguard 3a. <br /> Item No. 11 - Vanguard 3.<br /> Item No. 12 - Lofti-1. <br /> Item No. 13 - Pioneer 1.<br /> Item No. 14 - Pioneer 5. <br /> Item No. 15 - Ariel 1.<br /> Item No. 16 - Alouette 1.
  • They do look neat hanging up there.
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  • Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). It looks all neat and stuff, and with more bling than the other satellites.
  • One can always go to the Udvar-Hazy Center website and look at their floorplan interactive map. There, you can click on particular displays to get information about all that is there.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center/floor-plans.cfm">http://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center/floor-plans.cfm</a>
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