Tag: Endeavour
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Demo-2 safely returns Bob and Doug to Earth to conclude historic start to new Commercial Era
NASA and SpaceX have successfully returned NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour. The return to Earth brought an end to the historic first private-company spaceflight of humans to Earth orbit and the commencement of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico came as expected at 2:48…
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Tradition, Tragedy, Tribute: The Story of Doug Hurley, Bob Behnken, Columbia, and Endeavour
On Saturday, May 30, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken became the first astronauts to launch to orbit from the United States in almost nine years. Demo-2 was the first crewed launch for SpaceX, and the culmination of a decade of hard work in NASA’s Commercial Crew program. 20 years ago, Hurley and Behnken were just…
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Tradition, Tragedy, Tribute: The Story of Doug Hurley, Bob Behnken, Columbia, and Endeavour
On Saturday, May 30, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken became the first astronauts to launch to orbit from the United States in almost nine years. Demo-2 was the first crewed launch for SpaceX, and the culmination of a decade of hard work in NASA’s Commercial Crew program. 20 years ago, Hurley and Behnken were just…
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Twin solid rockets, reused veterans of spaceflight, set for Endeavour display
File photo of two shuttle solid rocket boosters. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — Two space shuttle solid rocket boosters — reusable space hardware that launched on 81 missions — are being gifted to the California Science Center to become part of the museum’s launch pad display of Endeavour. Made by Orbital ATK, the twin boosters…
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Parade moves last shuttle fuel tank to museum for Endeavour display
The external tank crosses the 405 Freeway. Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News A spectacle never seen before — a space shuttle external fuel tank traversing city streets — was witnessed in Los Angeles today as the relic was moved to the museum that will construct a rocket science attraction. See a full gallery of…
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Photos: Final space shuttle fuel tank moves through Los Angeles to museum
A last-of-its-kind piece of space hardware — the only remaining shuttle external fuel tank — is making its way along the city streets of Los Angeles today. External Tank No. 94 is headed from Marina del Rey on the Pacific Coast, where it arrived by barge on Wednesday, to the California Science Center at Exposition…
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Shuttle fuel tank comes ashore in California for Endeavour museum exhibit
Photo by Gene Blevins/LA Daily News A five-week, 5,000-mile sea trek of the last space shuttle external fuel tank pulled into port today for a parade through the urban jungle of Southern California on Saturday to its final destination. Originally built for a shuttle mission but never flown, the last-of-its-kind tank was donated to the…
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Photos: Shuttle tank arrives in California
The museum-bound space shuttle tank is coming ashore this morning in Marina del Rey, California, for offloading from its transport barge. The tank has spent the past five weeks at sea, traveling from its manufacturing facility in New Orleans. A 16-mile parade along Los Angeles city streets to the California Science Center will be Saturday.…
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Journey of shuttle fuel tank to California saves four people in Pacific
File photo from the trip by Dennis R. Jenkins Making a brief pit shop in San Diego to clear customs today, the museum-bound space shuttle external fuel tank will reach Los Angeles for offloading from the transport barge on Wednesday, just days after a serendipitous rescue of the passengers from a sunken boat in the…
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Photos: Space shuttle fuel tank in Panama for passage through canal
The last space shuttle external tank in existence, headed from the New Orleans manufacturing plant to the California Science Center for the vertical launch pad display of the retired orbiter Endeavour, has passed through the Panama Canal. The Shannon Dann tugboat pulling the Gulfmaster I barge loaded with External Tank No. 94 arrived at the…