Tag: Museum of Flight
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Going up? Space Elevator dreams will be alive in Seattle this weekend
Artist’s rendering of a space elevator. (By Kenn Man, via Museum of Flight.) Space elevators may not be a reality — yet — but if you want to revel in talks about these awesome lifts to the sky and beyond, then this is your weekend. The 2012 Space Elevator Conference is landing at the Museum…
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Curiosity packs the house for a perfect landing on Mars
Will you remember where you were when Curiosity landed? I know I will! I was among more than 600 people who showed up to the Museum of Flight in Seattle on a hot summer evening, waiting for those “7 minutes of terror.” The museum was packed as more people crammed in to watch the events…
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Super awesome ‘Curiosity’ approaches Mars, set for ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’
The plan to land the roving space lab Curiosity on Mars this weekend is the stuff of the wildest imaginations. Seriously, Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick would’ve killed for this storyline in “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In what is being hailed as one of the most challenging space maneuvers ever, NASA’s Curiosity will endure…
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The Super Guppy has landed: Scenes from the delivery of our Space Shuttle replica
Updated at bottom with picture of the crew compartment after it was unwrapped. We (and our kids) had a great time today down at the Museum of Flight, where NASA’s freakishly cool Super Guppy cargo plane delivered the crew compartment of the Full Fuselage Trainer — the replica Space Shuttle orbiter that will have a…
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Space Nerds Rejoice! The Super Guppy is on its way
NASA’s Super Guppy cargo plane Calling all space-exploration enthusiasts, aerospace aficionados and other flight geeks: the Museum of Flight announced today that a vital piece of its full-scale Space Shuttle Trainer, the crew cabin section, will arrive June 30 via the NASA plane dubbed the “Super Guppy.” Personally, we were kind of hoping that NASA would’ve…
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Space Shuttle Day: Seattle gets peek at trainer as Discovery descends on D.C.
The Full Fuselage Trainer in its previous home at NASA. It’s a big day for space nerds. On the East Coast today, Space Shuttle Discovery is making its final flight this morning — going from Florida to Washington, D.C., on the back of a Boeing 747, to a new home at the Smithsonian. And later this morning…
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Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos plans historic deep-sea Apollo 11 engine recovery
A massive bit of space history that inspired an entire generation of geeks has been found by Jeff Bezos — and ideally would be headed to Seattle’s Museum of Flight. The Amazon.com founder’s Bezos Expeditions has announced it’s identified, under 14,000 feet of water, the huge F-1 engines that powered the initial stage of Apollo…
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Q&A: Charles Simonyi on the magic of space and the ‘coziness’ of the trip home
Seattle’s Museum of Flight this week dedicated its new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, named after the former Microsoft engineer and two-time space traveler. When it opens this June, the new gallery will house a Soyuz capsule in which Simonyi returned to Earth for the second time, given to the museum by Simonyi on a long-term…
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Seattle’s Museum of Flight getting a Soyuz spacecraft, courtesy Charles Simonyi
The Soyuz TMA-13 Reentry Module that returned Charles Simonyi to Earth from the International Space Station. Credit: Space Adventures Seattle’s Museum of Flight lost out in the competition to exhibit a Space Shuttle orbiter, but it turns out it will be getting a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to display. Charles Simonyi after landing in the Soyuz…
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Wash. governor to NASA: We’re ready for Space Shuttle, while L.A. and NYC futz around
NASA’s selection of new homes for the retired Space Shuttles has been more than a little messy. The space agency’s own inspector general found multiple mistakes in the selection process, but NASA insisted that it didn’t affect the outcome. Seattle’s Museum of Flight, which came up just short of landing one of the Space Shuttles, recently raised…