Click on the arrowhead sign, in the middle of the screen, to see the 21 slides.
Read this, too: http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=shuttle
A postcard folder, that I bought from the NASA Museum in Washington, D.C. http://www.nasm.si.edu/, containing the postcards shown on the back:
A postcard folder, that I bought from the NASA Museum in Washington, D.C. http://www.nasm.si.edu/, containing the postcards shown on the back:
Also, a postcard from my collection, with the International Space Station (ISS):
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| The International Space Station on 30 May 2011 as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-134. | ||
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| ISS Insignia | ||
| Station statistics | ||
|---|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1998-067A | |
| Call sign | Alpha | |
| Crew | 6 Expedition 28 | |
| Launch | 1998–2012 | |
| Launch pad | Baikonur LC-81/23, LC-1/5 KSC LC-39, | |
| Mass | 417,289 kg (919,960 lb) (as of 03/09/2011)[1] | |
| Length | 51 m (167.3 ft) from PMA-2 to Zvezda | |
| Width | 109 m (357.5 ft) along truss, arrays extended | |
| Height | c. 20 m (c. 66 ft) nadir–zenith, arrays forward–aft (27 November 2009)[dated info] | |
| Pressurisedvolume | 837 m3 (29,600 cu ft) (21 March 2011) | |
| Atmospheric pressure | 101.3 kPa (29.91 inHg, 1 atm) | |
| Perigee | 352 km (190 nmi) AMSL (21 March 2011) | |
| Apogee | 355 km (192 nmi) AMSL (21 March 2011) | |
| Orbital inclination | 51.6 degrees | |
| Average speed | 7,706.6 m/s (27,743.8 km/h, 17,239.2 mph) | |
| Orbital period | 91 minutes | |
| Days in orbit | 4626 (21 July) | |
| Days occupied | 3913 (21 July) | |
| Number of orbits | 72612 (21 July) | |
| Orbital decay | 2 km/month | |
| Statistics as of 9 March 2011 (unless noted otherwise) | ||
| References: [2][3][4][5][6][7] | ||
| Configuration | ||
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| Station elements as of May 2011 (exploded view) | ||
"The International Space Station (ISS) is an internationally-developed research facility, which is being assembled in low Earth orbit and is the largest space station ever constructed.[8]
On-orbit construction of the station began in 1998 and is expected to be finished in 2012.
Like many artificial satellites, the ISS can be seen from Earth with the naked eye.
The ISS serves as a research laboratory that has a microgravity environment in which crews conduct experiments in biology,human biology, physics, astronomy and meteorology.[11][12][13]
The station has a unique environment for the testing of the spacecraft systems that will be required for missions to the Moon and Mars.[14]
The ISS is operated by Expedition crews, and has been continuously staffed since 2 November 2000—an uninterrupted human presence in space for the past 10 years and 261 days.[15]
As of June 2011, the crew of Expedition 28 is aboard.[16]
The ISS is a synthesis of several space station projects that includes the American Freedom, the Soviet/Russian Mir-2, the European Columbus and the Japanese Kibō.[17][18]
Budget constraints led to the merger of these projects into a single multi-national programme.[17]
The ISS project began in 1994 with the Shuttle-Mir program,[19] and the first module of the station, Zarya, was launched in 1998 by Russia.[17]
Since then, pressurised modules, external trusses and other components have been launched by American space shuttles, Russian Proton rockets and Russian Soyuz rockets.[18]
As of June 2011, the station consisted of 15 pressurised modules and an extensive integrated truss structure (ITS).
The planned final module, the Russian laboratory module, is expected to launch in 2012. Power is provided by 16 solar arrays mounted on the external truss, in addition to four smaller arrays on the Russian modules.[20]
The station is maintained at an orbit between 278 km (173 mi) and 460 km (286 mi) altitude, and travels at an average ground speed of 27,724 km (17,227 mi) per hour, completing 15.7 orbits per day.[21]"
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