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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. The underside of a space shuttle is covered with about 24,300 unique silica tiles that have to be individually fitted onto the vehicle. Though extremely fragile, they sufficiently protected the aluminum frame of the spacecraft from the searing heat of reentry. The landing gear remained tucked behind the protective hea...

  4. Space Shuttle Endeavour, known as OV-105, flew twenty-five missions in her twenty years of service amounting to 296 days in space, 4,671 orbits of Earth and a distance traveled of almost 200 million kilometers (122 million miles). She carried the first pieces of the International Space Station to orbit and made the fir...

  5. Space Shuttle Endeavour is named after the ship that carried Captain James Cook to Tahiti for observations of the 1769 transit of Venus, the reasoning behind its British spelling. This orbiter, the fifth and final built for the space shuttle program, was constructed from structural spare parts to replace Challenger aft...

  6. The cockpit of Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 hasn't been updated since it was built in 1970. There are no computer screens and no joystick controls. Both the pilot and co-pilot do have their own ashtrays, harkening back to the days when smoking would be common while flying a jumbo-jet. The additional weight and dr...

  7. 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...

  8. Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) 905 was manufactured as a passenger aircraft 747-100 for American Airlines in 1970 but acquired by NASA in 1974. By 1976, Boeing had heavily modified the aircraft by stripping its interior and strengthening the fuselage to support the weight of an 172,000 lb orbiter attached on top. The f...

  9. At 15 feet (4.5 meters) wide and 60 feet (18 meters) long, the payload bay of Discovery carried cargo to and from space. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched to space from here, as were several pieces of the International Space Station (ISS). Payloads were usually loaded while the shuttle was vertical on the launch...

  10. 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...

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