Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery #photography #airandspace #aircraft #airplanes #atlantis #avgeek #aviationphotography #challenger #columbia #discovery #endeavour #enterprise #nasa #orbitalmaneuveringsystem #planes #reactioncontrolsystem #smithsonian #spaceshuttleprogram #spaceshuttlestack #highlight #orbiter #solidrocketboosters #spaceshuttle #stevenfudvarhazycenter (Flickr 2016-07-08 17:20:46) https://www.flickr.com/photos/7489441@N06/27575048764

A #Photograph of #Space #Shuttle #Endeavour’s #crew cabin and nose. The name “Endeavour” is clearly visible below the #cockpit #windscreen. Below the name is an emergency escape #hatch. The “seam” where the payload bay doors meet the pressurized section is visible, as are several of the hinges on the doors.
The #SpaceShuttle’s reinforced carbon-carbon nose is visible, behind which is the forward Reaction Control System pod and its nozzles, which merges into the crew section.
This #Photo was taken after #NASA’s STS-134 mission to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-02 to the #ISS.
Endeavour is being towed to an Orbiter Processing Facility to be serviced and then prepared for #museum display. The #Orbiter is on public display at the California #Science Center.
#Spacecraft, #Photography, #STS134, #ReactionControlSystem, #RCS, #STS134, #AlphaMagneticSpectrometer2, #AMS02, #HumanSpaceflight, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC
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#SpaceShuttle #Orbiter #Atlantis is backed into the tall #VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building). It will wait there, missing its #RCS (#ReactionControlSystem) and #OMS (#OrbitalManeuveringSystem)
which are being decontaminated at #WhiteSands #Space Harbor from the toxic #MMH monomethylhydrazine /N2O4 that had filled its tanks for so long.
Translucent foil covers Atlantis’ RCS location, but nowhere else.
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