{"id":22663,"date":"2021-07-16T22:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/flashback-friday-take-a-vr-tour-of-space-shuttle-discovery\/"},"modified":"2021-07-16T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:27:19","slug":"flashback-friday-take-a-vr-tour-of-space-shuttle-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/flashback-friday-take-a-vr-tour-of-space-shuttle-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday: Take a VR tour of Space Shuttle Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a time when traveling to a museum might not be the best of ideas (Thanks, COVID!!), being able to take a virtual tour is a godsend when you want to satiate your curiosity about something. Luckily, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has us covered with a VR tour of Space Shuttle Discovery.<\/p>\n

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The video below is a VR tour of Discovery <\/em>at her final home at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Dulles, Virginia, part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. In the video, we join retired astronauts Charlie Bolden and Kathy Sullivan as they reminisce about their time on STS-31, Discovery\u2019s<\/em> mission to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. After being lifted up to the hatch, our hosts climb aboard and spend time reliving the flight for us in different parts of the ship. <\/p>\n

During breaks in their stories, we get a few moments to look around in 3D to get a good view of each part of the ship. We even go for a walk inside the payload bay which we can see was not stripped down for Discovery\u2019s retirement like the engine bay. But in this case, the bay is empty, unlike Atlantis<\/em> which is on display with the bay doors open.<\/p>\n

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