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  1. The Payload Bay on Endeavour is 4.6m wide by 18m long (15ft by 59ft) and could carry payloads up to 25,060kg (55,250 pounds). It was often used to transport satellites or space station components to orbit but could also carry a Spacelab module with a myriad of experiments or provide a platform for the orbital servicing...

  2. MSL Curiosity is a NASA rover landed on Mars last week. This is the first hi-res color panorama taken with Mastcam 34mm camera. The panorama is made with about 80 single frames. You can find the final version (140 frames) in my profile. All images used are courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

  3. Sunspot, New Mexico (elevation: 2804m) is home to the 76cm Dunn Solar Telescope. The telescope extends 40 meters above ground and another 60 meters below, and the entire optical path is in a vacuum. You can see my exterior gigapan of the telescope here: www.gigapan.com/gigapans/104195 - The telescope was name...

  4. Space shuttle Discovery rests in her new home in the Human Spaceflight hangar at the Smithsonian's Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Just one hour after Discovery's wheels stopped on her tow in to the facility, space shuttle Enterprise waits outside the door for her trip to Dulles Airport and eventually Intrepid Sea, Air, ...

  5. The space shuttle Discovery rests atop the Boeing-747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) just hours after landing at Dulles International Airport. This particular aircraft was the first ever to transport a shuttle, after being converted from a passenger plane for American Airlines in the early 1970s. It has ferried the spa...

  6. This is the flight deck of the space shuttle Discovery during her decommissioning process in the Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF). Several components are missing as part of that process including panels of switches, closed circuit TV (CCTV) screens, and storage lockers. During flight, the commander sat in the seat on...

  7. The space shuttle's mid-deck was a multipurpose area. Astronauts slept here, food was stored and prepared, scientific research was carried out, and the toilet utilized. It provided crew module access on the ground through the main hatch and in space through the airlock to the payload bay and International Space Station...

  8. The toilet on the space shuttle was known as the Waste Collection System (WCS) and collected human waste through air flow and the suction it created. Liquid waste was vented to space but solid waste was moved to a cylindrical container below deck and exposed to vacuum to dry it. Air used in these processes is filtered ...

  9. When a space shuttle is mated to a shuttle carrier aircraft (SCA) for transport between space centers, a tail cone is installed over its main engines. This reduces both drag and turbulence created by the piggy-backing spacecraft while also protecting the engines. Discovery's final tail cone was installed in the Orbiter...

  10. A space shuttle has 12 windows including the six that look forward from the flight deck. Each contains three panes of glass made of aluminum silicate and fused silica, two materials of extreme strength and heat resistance. They are protected inside and out at all times, uncovered only just before launch and recovered s...

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