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Shuttle Enterprise Flight To New York

"Space Shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen as it flies near the Statue of Liberty, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. Enterprise was the first shuttle orbiter built for NASA performing test flights in the atmosphere and was incapable of spaceflight. Originally housed at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Enterprise will be demated from the SCA and placed on a barge that will eventually be moved by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June."

Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Date: April 27, 2012

NASA ID: 201204270016HQ

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The NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) in position beneath the Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle-105), suspended with a massive lifting structure, at Rockwell International's Air Force Plant 42, Site 1, at Palmdale, California. The shuttle will be attached to the 747 SCA for transporting to the Kennedy Space Center, FLorida.

Produced: April 26, 1991

NARA: 6506111, 6506112, 6506113, 6506120, 6506116, 6506118

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The HL-20 Personal Launch System (PLS) is a concept for assured access to space for people and priority cargo. Pictured is the PLS operating at the Space Station Freedom, which became the International Space Station.

Date: April 26, 1990

NASA ID: EL-1996-00177

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Attack version of the Douglas B-42 Mixmaster

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#its ass cheeks Friday my boys

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2024 April 26

Regulus and the Dwarf Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Markus Horn

Explanation: In northern hemisphere spring, bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this telescopic field of view. A mere 79 light-years distant, Regulus is a hot, rapidly spinning star that is known to be part of a multiple star system. Not quite lost in the glare, the fuzzy patch just below Regulus is diffuse starlight from small galaxy Leo I. Leo I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy, a member of the Local Group of galaxies dominated by our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). About 800 thousand light-years away, Leo I is thought to be the most distant of the known small satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. But dwarf galaxy Leo I has shown evidence of a supermassive black hole at its center, comparable in mass to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240426.html

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The upper fuselage is being installed onto Atlantis' lower fuselage, with the crew module already secured.

Date: April 25, 1984

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Grumman TBF Avengers of a Marine torpedo bomber squadron, over the Pacific. The Avengers seen through the escape hatch of a transport, en route to recently captured airfields on Okinawa.

Photographed by Master Sergeant C.L. Jansson, on April 25, 1945.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 127-GW-530-121884

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Workers in the Vehicle Assembly Building prepare to lift the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

Date: April 25, 1979

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NASA ID: S79-32845

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"Lunar Module White Room" - by Billy Morrow Jackson

Date: 1967

NASA ID: 67-HC-804

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Workers towing Space Shuttle Enterprise into the VAB.

Date: April 25, 1979

NASA ID: link

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A Martin AM-1Q Mauler electronic countermeasures aircraft of composite squadron VC-4 on the flight deck of USS KEARSARGE (CV-33), during a qualification cruise, near Atlantic City, New Jersey. A total of 18 of the Maulers produced were delivered in the electronic countermeasures configuration and designated AM-1Qs.

Date: April 25-29, 1949

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Preparations for Apollo Transonic Abort flight (A-001), using Apollo boilerplate 12 spacecraft.

NASA ID: BP12-A-NOID

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Launch of SA-2

SA-2 Saturn I lifting off from LC-34 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This was the first flight of Project Highwater, which was carried on SA-2 through SA-4.

Diagram of the flight plan and release of the water through exploding the dummy S-IV.

"This vehicle had a secondary mission. After the first stage shutoff, at a 65-mile altitude, the water-filled upper stage was exploded, dumping 95 tons of water in the upper atmosphere. The resulting massive ice cloud rose to a height of 90 miles. The experiment, called Project Highwater, was intended to investigate the effects on the ionosphere of the sudden release of such a great volume of water."

Explosion of the upper stage containing the water.

Date: April 25, 1962

NASA ID: LOD 62-PC-39, MSFC-6203276, 6203276, LOD 62-3644

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Space Shuttle Enterprise being from the runway, after arriving and the Mate Demate-Device at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Date: April 25, 1979

Intrepid Museum Archive: P2013.30.01, P2013.30.03

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Workers removing the Space Shuttle Enterprise from the 747 SCA in the Mate-Demate Device at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Date: April 25, 1979

NASA ID: link

#Space Shuttle #Space Shuttle Enterprise #Enterprise #OV-101 #Orbiter #NASA #Space Shuttle Program #Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Boeing 747 SCA #Boeing 747 #747 #Shuttle Carrier Aircraft #Mate-Demate Device #MDD #Kennedy Space Center #KSC #Florida #April #1979 #my post

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Rollout ceremony for Space Shuttle Endeavour

"The Space Shuttle Endeavour OV-105, the sixth shuttle manufactured for NASA, displayed during roll out ceremonies attended by a large crowd of officials and the public at Rockwell International's Air Force Plant 42, Site 1, at Palmdale."

Endeavour (OV-105) features many design enhancements, including a drag chute for safer landings and equipment to allow the orbiter to remain in space for up to 28 days.

Date: April 25, 1991

NARA: 6506110, 6506109

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NASA ID: 91-H-323, 10065093, KSC-91PC-0770, KSC-91PC-0769, KSC-91PC-0768, KSC-91PC-0767, KSC-91PC-0766