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  1. Uploaded BUNCH of #NASA #SpaceShuttle #Shuttle clipart from the 1990's. Converted from Superpaint, MacDraw, Etc.. Credit to @rocketksc.bsky.social (William Harwood) that created a bunch of these, don't remember how I got the others:
    gandalfddi.z19.web.core.window

    Google Drive:
    drive.google.com/drive/folders

  2. The #Buran also had emergency ejection seats 💺 for all crew members (absent on the #US shuttles) and was free from the specific design flaws that contributed to the destruction 💥 of two shuttles in flight, the #Challenger in 1986 and the #Columbia in 2003 edition.cnn.com/style/article/

    #SpaceShuttle #NASA #HumanSpaceflightSecurity

  3. There was no way that one could have confidence that conditions the next time might not produce #erosion three times more severe than the time before. Officials fooled themselves into thinking they had such understanding and confidence, in spite of the peculiar variations from case to case. A mathematical model was made to calculate erosion. This was a model based not on physical understanding but on empirical curve fitting en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_

    #SpaceShuttle #Challenger #Orion #Artemis #NASA

  4. #OnThisDay #SpaceShuttle #Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere (2003) resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.

    Birth Anniversary of Emilio Segrè (1905) - #NobelPrize winner and group leader for the #Manhattan Project. He discovered the elements #Technetium and #Astatine.

    Birth Anniversary of John Napier (1550) - best known as the discoverer of #Logarithms.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  5. "
    How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
    "
    ".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

    ".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

    nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-

    28.1.2026

    #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

  6. "
    How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
    "
    ".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

    ".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

    nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-

    28.1.2026

    #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

  7. "
    How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
    "
    ".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

    ".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

    nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-

    28.1.2026

    #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

  8. "
    How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
    "
    ".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

    ".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

    nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-

    28.1.2026

    #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

  9. "
    How Richard Feynman Found the Root of the Challenger Disaster
    "
    ".. O-rings .. these rings were never intended to be used to cover expanding gaps, .. "

    ".. felt frustrated by the slow pace + “time-consuming” public meetings + briefings “of so little use.” He did his own research .. even created his own report .. released publicly. .."

    nautil.us/how-richard-feynman-

    28.1.2026

    #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #NASA #ORing #Raumfahrt #RichardFeynman #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L

  10. #ABC:
    "
    Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming

    Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
    "
    abc.net.au/news/science/2026-0

    27.1.2026

    #arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol

  11. #ABC:
    "
    Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming

    Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
    "
    abc.net.au/news/science/2026-0

    27.1.2026

    #arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol

  12. #ABC:
    "
    Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming

    Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
    "
    abc.net.au/news/science/2026-0

    27.1.2026

    #arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol

  13. #ABC:
    "
    Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming

    Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
    "
    abc.net.au/news/science/2026-0

    27.1.2026

    #arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol

  14. #ABC:
    "
    Challenger: The disaster five people saw coming

    Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off, killing its crew and changing the history of spaceflight. A small team of engineers tried to prevent the tragedy — but they were overruled.
    "
    abc.net.au/news/science/2026-0

    27.1.2026

    #arrogance #Booster #BurnThrough #Challenger #disaster #management #NASA #negligence #ORing #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #SRB #STS #STS51L #Thiokol

  15. #OnThisDay The #Dwarf #Planet #Eris was discovered (2005). Eris is the most massive and second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System.

    US President Richard Nixon announced the #SpaceShuttle program (1972).

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  16. Also, Texas has a terrible history of properly storing invaluable artifacts.
    The #Shuttle replica they did receive, named #Independence, was vandalized in 2013.

    Don't give #JSC valuable artifacts; they just destroy them.

    space.com/23785-space-shuttle-

    #SpaceShuttle #MoronAreGouverningAmerica

  17. #Trump wants to destroy Space Shuttle #Discovery to further his petty feud with the #Smithsonian by sending the #Orbiter to Texas. The only way to do so is to tear Discovery apart; destroying an invaluable historical artifact.

    Again, he wants to destroy an invaluable historical artifact because of a petty feud that exists only in his demented and delusional mind.

    theregister.com/2025/10/02/dis

    #SpaceShuttle #MoronsAreGoverningAmerica

  18. #Trump wants to destroy Space Shuttle #Discovery to further his petty feud with the #Smithsonian by sending the #Orbiter to Texas. The only way to do so is to tear Discovery apart; destroying an invaluable historical artifact.

    Again, he wants to destroy an invaluable historical artifact because of a petty feud that exists only in his demented and delusional mind.

    theregister.com/2025/10/02/dis

    #SpaceShuttle #MoronsAreGoverningAmerica

  19. #Trump wants to destroy Space Shuttle #Discovery to further his petty feud with the #Smithsonian by sending the #Orbiter to Texas. The only way to do so is to tear Discovery apart; destroying an invaluable historical artifact.

    Again, he wants to destroy an invaluable historical artifact because of a petty feud that exists only in his demented and delusional mind.

    theregister.com/2025/10/02/dis

    #SpaceShuttle #MoronsAreGoverningAmerica

  20. #Trump wants to destroy Space Shuttle #Discovery to further his petty feud with the #Smithsonian by sending the #Orbiter to Texas. The only way to do so is to tear Discovery apart; destroying an invaluable historical artifact.

    Again, he wants to destroy an invaluable historical artifact because of a petty feud that exists only in his demented and delusional mind.

    theregister.com/2025/10/02/dis

    #SpaceShuttle #MoronsAreGoverningAmerica

  21. #Trump wants to destroy Space Shuttle #Discovery to further his petty feud with the #Smithsonian by sending the #Orbiter to Texas. The only way to do so is to tear Discovery apart; destroying an invaluable historical artifact.

    Again, he wants to destroy an invaluable historical artifact because of a petty feud that exists only in his demented and delusional mind.

    theregister.com/2025/10/02/dis

    #SpaceShuttle #MoronsAreGoverningAmerica

  22. Close up of the front gear mount for space shuttle carry and tail of NASA 747-SCA N911NA at the Joe Davies Airpark, Palmdale, California. July 2018 #aviation #AvGeek #photography #aircraft #Nikon #nikonphotgraphy #NASA #B747 #SCA #cvvhrn #spaceshuttle #palmdale #joedavies

  23. NASA Space Shuttle 36% wind tunnel model tested in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex at Ames Research Center (Home to the largest wind tunnel in the world), Moffett Field, now a gate guard #NASA #NASAAmes #Moffett #SpaceShuttle #WindTunnel #space #testing

  24. ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston – Space

    Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution / Dane Penland)

    ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston

    By Josh Dinner, published July 30, 2025

    “This is not a transfer — it’s a heist.”

    Comments (81)

    Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution/Dane Penland)

    A provision in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” orders the Air and Space Museum to transfer ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery back to NASA for relocation near the space center in Houston. However, the Smithsonian Institution is not backing down on its stance that Congress has no legal authority to mandate Discovery’s removal, and they’re bringing the receipts.

    It all started with the “Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act.” Introduced by Texas Senators John Cornyn (R) and Ted Cruz (R) in April, this act was an attempt to force the transfer of Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian‘s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center just outside Washington D.C. to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The act stalled in committee and would have been dead in the water, but was rebranded and folded into the more than 1,100 pages of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in an attempt to force the issue.

    While the language of the legislation was altered to comply with Senate reconciliation rules, such as refraining to name Discovery directly, the goal remained the same. The new wording instead refers to the transfer of a “space vehicle” — to be specified by the NASA Administrator within one month of the bill’s signing — to a NASA facility “involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program” by January 2027. The Smithsonian has rejected the attempt outright, saying it has the paperwork to prove the Institution’s ownership of Discovery and that it’s critical the space shuttle remains in its care.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston | Space

    Original article: View source

    #2025 #America #Discovery #DonaldTrump #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NASA #Politics #Resistance #Science #SpaceShuttle #SpaceCom #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

  25. ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston – Space

    Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution / Dane Penland)

    ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston

    By Josh Dinner, published July 30, 2025

    “This is not a transfer — it’s a heist.”

    Comments (81)

    Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution/Dane Penland)

    A provision in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” orders the Air and Space Museum to transfer ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery back to NASA for relocation near the space center in Houston. However, the Smithsonian Institution is not backing down on its stance that Congress has no legal authority to mandate Discovery’s removal, and they’re bringing the receipts.

    It all started with the “Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act.” Introduced by Texas Senators John Cornyn (R) and Ted Cruz (R) in April, this act was an attempt to force the transfer of Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian‘s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center just outside Washington D.C. to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The act stalled in committee and would have been dead in the water, but was rebranded and folded into the more than 1,100 pages of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in an attempt to force the issue.

    While the language of the legislation was altered to comply with Senate reconciliation rules, such as refraining to name Discovery directly, the goal remained the same. The new wording instead refers to the transfer of a “space vehicle” — to be specified by the NASA Administrator within one month of the bill’s signing — to a NASA facility “involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program” by January 2027. The Smithsonian has rejected the attempt outright, saying it has the paperwork to prove the Institution’s ownership of Discovery and that it’s critical the space shuttle remains in its care.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston | Space

    #2025 #America #Discovery #DonaldTrump #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NASA #Politics #Resistance #Science #SpaceShuttle #SpaceCom #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

  26. ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston – Space

    Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution / Dane Penland)

    ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston

    By Josh Dinner, published July 30, 2025

    “This is not a transfer — it’s a heist.”

    Comments (81)

    Thirty years after its first launch, the space shuttle Discovery is now the centerpiece of the James S. McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution/Dane Penland)

    A provision in President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” orders the Air and Space Museum to transfer ownership of Space Shuttle Discovery back to NASA for relocation near the space center in Houston. However, the Smithsonian Institution is not backing down on its stance that Congress has no legal authority to mandate Discovery’s removal, and they’re bringing the receipts.

    It all started with the “Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act.” Introduced by Texas Senators John Cornyn (R) and Ted Cruz (R) in April, this act was an attempt to force the transfer of Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian‘s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center just outside Washington D.C. to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The act stalled in committee and would have been dead in the water, but was rebranded and folded into the more than 1,100 pages of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” in an attempt to force the issue.

    While the language of the legislation was altered to comply with Senate reconciliation rules, such as refraining to name Discovery directly, the goal remained the same. The new wording instead refers to the transfer of a “space vehicle” — to be specified by the NASA Administrator within one month of the bill’s signing — to a NASA facility “involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program” by January 2027. The Smithsonian has rejected the attempt outright, saying it has the paperwork to prove the Institution’s ownership of Discovery and that it’s critical the space shuttle remains in its care.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: ‘The Smithsonian Institution owns the Discovery.’ Museum resists Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ plan to move space shuttle to Houston | Space

    Original article: View source

    #2025 #America #Discovery #DonaldTrump #History #Libraries #LibraryOfCongress #NASA #Politics #Resistance #Science #SpaceShuttle #SpaceCom #Technology #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

  27. Something old, something new, something scorched, something glued.... Thermal Protection Tiles on the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103, Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian, Chantilly Virginia #space #shuttle #NASA #SpaceShuttle #AvGeek #photography #Nikon #aircraft #Z9 #museum #Virginia #Udvarhazy

  28. #Space #SpaceShuttle #Discovery #Deals #Cruz #Cornyn #Smithsonian #payback #Boost

    SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY TO BE MOVED FROM SMITHSONIAN TO TEXAS COSTING $85 MILLION CORNYN CRUZ DEAL
    Spread the word

    Deep within the bill is a provision added by Texas' senators to transfer a "space vehicle" to a NASA center "involved in the administration of the Commercial Crew Program" and "placed on public exhibition at an entity within the Metropolitan Statistical Area where such center is located."

    MSN

  29. Evolution of the price per kg of payload (LEO) for several space missions:

    🇺🇸 Space Shuttle - $19.8k/kg
    🇪🇺 Ariane 5 - $10.3k/kg
    🇷🇺 Soyuz FG - $7.2k/kg
    🇯🇵 H-IIB - $7.1k/kg
    🇨🇳 LongMarch 3B - $5.8k/kg
    🇮🇳 Polar Satellite - $3.9k/kg
    SpaceX Falcon - $2.7k/kg
    SpaceX Falcon 9 (reuse) - $1.9k/kg

    #Space #SpaceShuttle #Payload #SpaceMission #SpaceMIssions #Evolution #LEO #LowEarthOrbit #Mission #Missions #Shuttle #Ariane #Ariane5 #Soyuz #SoyuzFG #HIIB #LongMarch #LongMarch3B #PolarSatellite #SpaceX #Falcon #Falcon9 #Reuse #SpaceScience #Planet #SpaceTech #Astrodynamics #Astrophile #OrbitalDynamics #Technology #STEM

  30. #DLR:
    "
    Wie eine Space-Shuttle-Mission d. Erdbeobachtung revolutionierte

    SRTM lieferte 2000 d. erste nahezu globale Höhenmodell d. Erde.
    DLR prägte mit der Verarbeitung + Analyse d. Missionsdaten d. Fernerkundung.
    Jubiläumsvideo mit exklusiven Einblicken von Astronaut Gerhard Thiele, Anke Pagels-Kerp + DLR-Experten ..
    "
    dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichte

    11.2.2025

    #Endeavour #EO #Erdbeobachtung #Fernerkundung #Höhenmodell #Radar #Radarinterferometrie #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #SpaceShuttle #STS99 #SRTM

  31. #OnThisDay #SpaceShuttle #Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere (2003) resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.

    Birth Anniversary of Emilio Segrè (1905) - #NobelPrize winner and group leader for the #Manhattan Project. He discovered the elements #Technetium and #Astatine.

    Birth Anniversary of John Napier (1550) - best known as the discoverer of #Logarithms.

    knowledgezone.co.in/news

  32. I found this old set of white ceramic drawer knobs with NASA/astronomy pictures on the front at Goodwill just now. Probably from a kid's dresser I'd guess. No idea what to do with them, but for $2.50 I couldn't pass them up. Judging from the NASA subjects, I'd say they're from the late 70s to early 80s.
    #NASA #space #spaceShuttle #astronaut #skylab #spaceCollectables

  33. #NASA’s #Space Shuttle #Endeavour, being towed back to an Orbiter Processing Facility at #KennedySpaceCenter after #STS134.
    The #SpaceShuttle is accompanied by a group of support vehicles, with its #reflection in a pond.

    #KSC, #Spaceflight, #OV105, #HumanSpaceflight, #Photography, #DesktopBackground