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Wow, what a neat painting.

No, that's REAL.

STS-71, Atlantis, departing MIR, July 1995. Photo taken from a Soyuz.

OK, this time it's artwork.
Rarity, two shuttles on pad at the same time.September 20, 1990.

Columbia STS-35 on pad 39A at left, Discovery STS-41 on pad 39B at right.

STS-91 rollout to pad at dawn

From STS-91 Lite ET folder


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Wind tunnel plume test
Wind tunnel plume test
Computer simulation of aerodynamic heating
Someone's Photoshop handiwork
STS-47 launch, as Ken Mizoi hold's George's 1/60 orbiter

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Enterprise orbiter was flown into MSFC in March 1978 for Vibration tests

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The vibration test building was originally built for the Saturn-V.

Enterprise lowered to the ET. Other vibration tests included SRB's with inert propellant, and SRB's without. This was without any SRB's.

 


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Pathfinder

Orbiter

 


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A few more photos like this are on the MSFC page
MSFC had three Open houses which displayed Enterprise, the ET, and some SRB segments.

Pathfinder's original use, test-fitting and practicing before risking hoisting Enterprise into the Vibration Test Building at MFSC
Pathfinder was later sent to KSC for similar test-fit and practice work before Enterprise was flown to KSC
 


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A Japanese business group paid $1 million to give Pathfinder a face-liift to look more like a real orbiter. In exchange for being on display at a Japanese exposition (not seen here) for a year in the mid-1980's
In 1988, Pathfinder was mounted to an ET & SRB set at the Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville
SRB Forward Skirt & Frustums were real. NASA took them back in the late 1990's to put into use on real shuttle flights. This photo is before the change to mock-ups. Black roll pattern is a bit off.
ET is the same as used for the MPTA tests in the late 1970's. SRB's are mostly the graphite-composite cased SRB's meant for Vandenberg shuttle flights. One aft skirt is a mock-up, the other aft skirt is a structural test article.
View of Pathfinder, Saturn-I block II, and Saturn-V replica.

At least one of the Pathfinder SSME's was flown on Columbia 's early missions

 


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STS-95/Glenn SRB sep

 


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OTHER

Shuttle Data Main
ICD Drawings
STS-47 - Endeavour
Endeavour not STS-047
ET Photos
SRB
Orbiter
SSME Engines
Struts & Interfaces
Stacking
Stack Closeups
Shuttle On Pad
Launches
MSFC
STS-91 Lite ET
STS-95_Glenn
STS-98_ISS
Florida Today
747 Shuttle
Other