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A nose-on view of #NASA’s #Space #Shuttle #Orbiter #Endeavour after it returned to Kennedy Space Center from its STS-134 mission delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer 2 to the International Space Station, as it’s being towed back to an Orbiter Processing Facility for servicing. Get a print or other item with this image at https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/endeavour-returns-nose-on-view-heron-and-fox.html #SpaceShuttle, #SpaceShuttleEndeavour, #SpaceShuttleOrbiter, #KennedySpaceCenter, #KSC, #AlphaMagneticSpectrometer02, #AMS02, #InternationalSpaceStation, #ISS, #Photography

An outdoor photograph of NASA’s Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, taken nose on and across from a water-filled ditch and some reads.
The Orbiter is shaped like an airplane with a white top and black bottom. It is being towed by a small, yellow cart. Other vehicles, including a bus, drive along with Endeavour.

After #NASA retired the #Space #Shuttle in 2011, they planned to send the #Orbiters to museums. To get them ready, NASA removed the #SSME #rocket #engines and replaced them with replicas and decontaminated the parts of the Orbiter that held toxic fuel for in-space maneuvering, then be put on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

In this #photograph, #Atlantis (closer on the left) and #Endeavour (on the right) have been brought nose-to-nose for #photographers and #journalists to tell the story of the Shuttle’s #retirement.

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An outdoor, daylight photograph of the aft of NASA’s Space Shuttle Atlantis, as it is posed nose-to-nose with Space Shuttle Endeavour.

#NASA’s #Shuttle #Orbiters used a kind of #silica tile, called LI-900, to create the #SpaceShuttle’s reusable heat shield.
The tiles on the parts of the Orbiter than get the hottest have an added coat of special black paint to help insulate the Shuttle even further.
This image was taken while #Endeavour was at Kennedy Space Center being readied for museum display.
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An indoor photograph under NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour. The black tiles of the Shuttle’s heat shield are visible at the top of the frame, with the forward landing gear deployed.

When the time came to take #NASA’s Space #Shuttle #Discovery to the Smithsonian near Washington, the Shuttle Carrier #Aircraft was employed, as it usually was when the #SpaceShuttle needed to move.
This required the #Orbiter to be moved inside a truss-work structured called the Mate-Demate #Device, lifted up by cranes, and the #Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Airfcraft moved underneath for the Shuttle to be secured for transport.
An aerodynamic tail cone makes the #SCA easier to control.
The #MDD is next to the Shuttle Landing Facility.
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A photograph of Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery. It is a plane-like glider with a white top and black heat-shield bottom. It is being lifted up inside a metal truss-work structure called the Mate-Demate Device. A Boeing 747 airplane has been moved inside the structure under the Shuttle, allowing Discovery to be mounted on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

#SpaceSaturday: After #NASA retired the Space Shuttle, the #Orbiters were given to #museums, but not before being prepared. On this photograph of #Atlantis, the 2 aft Orbital Maneuvering System Pods and forward Reaction Control System pod are missing. The missing forward #RCS is covered with clear tarp. The OMS pods left a silver-lined connection on the #ShuttleOrbiter.
In addition, the 3 Space Shuttle Main Engines have been removed for reuse on the #SLS #rocket.
Two Orbiter Processing Facilities are in the background, all were eventually leased to Boeing for the X-37B and Starliner programs.
#SpaceShuttle, #SpaceShuttleOrbiter, #SpaceShuttleAtlantis, # ReactionControlSystem #RCS, #Orbital ManeuveringSystem #OMS, #OrbiterProcessingFacility, #OPF,
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