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4 unusual facts about Shuttle


Saturn-Shuttle

But because of the need to keep costs down and to allow President Richard Nixon to approve the shuttle program in 1972, NASA decided to utilize segmented solid rocket boosters similar to those used on the Titan III rocket instead of the S-IC, thus ending the Saturn program after the initial Saturn V order was completed.

Shuttle-C

After President George W. Bush called for the end of the Space Shuttle by 2010, these proposed configurations were put aside.

Shuttle-Derived Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle

Virtually no change to the current Space Shuttle infrastructure, from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the External Tank barge to the launch pads is required.

Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle

The National Launch System was a study authorized in 1991 by President George H. W. Bush to outline alternatives to the Space Shuttle for access to Earth Orbit.


AEC railmotor

On the Upfield line an AEC railmotor operated a shuttle service between Fawkner and Somerton (on the site of today's Roxburgh Park station) from the reopening of the section in 1928, until 1956 when the line north from Fawkner was closed.

Alamein railway line

The line is operated as a shuttle service between Camberwell and Alamein stations during off-peak periods, while trains run the whole distance to Flinders Street Station during peak hours.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

AMS-02 was delivered to the International Space Station on May 19, 2011 as part of station assembly flight ULF6 on shuttle flight STS-134, commanded by Mark Kelly.

Approach and Landing Tests

Upon the orbiter's entry into service, NASA began an extensive program of tests using Enterprise to ensure all of the systems it had put in place for the shuttle project functioned as designed.

Aubrey Herring

He was part of the 4x120yd world record shuttle hurdle relay team (David Oliver, Joel Brown, Aries Merritt) that ran 53.31 at the 2008 Penn Relay Carnival.

Barbara Prey

She has painted the x-43, the world's fastest aircraft; a commemorative work for the anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy titled The Columbia Tribute; a rendition of the International Space Station; and a painting of the Space Shuttle Discovery titled Shuttle Discovery: Return to Flight.

Bray Daly railway station

Between the 1984 inauguration of DART and November 1990, a diesel shuttle train (initially a 201 class or 121 class locomotive with former AEC railcars converted to push–pull stock, later an 80 class train leased from Northern Ireland Railways) operated between Bray and Greystones, connecting with DART services.

Carlos Padilla Maqueo

The album consisted of 10 new original tracks, and includes the track What Can Be Done At This Point, song that gives the name to the album and offers a posthumous tribute to the crew of the space shuttle Challenger.

Cassatt Crossing

The train helped shuttle locals to see performers, such as Beverly Sills, at the theater.

Chatter Telephone

In 1985, Fisher-Price offered to donate a Chatter Telephone, Rock A Stack, and Activity Center to NASA for Senator Jake Garn to play with while on the STS-51-D space shuttle mission.

Fusaichi Pegasus

For several years, Fusaichi Pegasus served as a "shuttle stallion" standing at Coolmore's Ashford Stud near Versailles, Kentucky, during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season and at Coolmore Australia near Jerrys Plains, New South Wales, during the Southern Hemisphere breeding season, but since the 2010 breeding season has stood exclusively in Kentucky.

Golden Bay Air

The airline currently operates two Piper Aircraft from Takaka to Wellington and Karamea, and also from Nelson to Takaka and Karamea with connecting road shuttle services to the Abel Tasman National Park, the Heaphy Track in the Kahurangi National Park and to and from Takaka township.

Greater Hartford

Commuter rail on the same line is proposed, with rush-hour service centered on Hartford and a shuttle to Bradley International Airport from the Windsor Locks station.

Halle Brothers Co.

When the planned subway failed to materialize (then-County Engineer Albert S. Porter refused to go forward with the project believing that the future of local transportation was linked to the freeway), Halle's was forced to continue the shuttle service.

Hermann Eilts

He served as an American ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, assisted Henry Kissinger's Mideast shuttle diplomacy effort, worked with Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat throughout the Camp David Accords, and dodged a Libyan hit team.

Holborn tube station

The pre-war operation of the station and the branch line features in a pivotal scene in Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, when the pursuit of the protagonist by enemy agents sees them repeatedly using the station's escalators, passageways and the shuttle service.

Intervertebral disc damage and spaceflight

Astronauts have expressed an increased incidence of back pain during spaceflight and herniated intervertebral discs (IVD) have been diagnosed upon return of Skylab and Shuttle spaceflight participants.

James M. Kelly

When this continued for a second day the shuttle was diverted and Kelly landed with Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

James Neihouse

Neihouse has trained more than 120 NASA astronauts and 10 Russian cosmonauts on 20 space shuttle flights to film in space aboard the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station.

Jet DVD

There are eight videos (presented in chronological order of single release,) around which there are short scenes of Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura goofing off while traveling through space in a space shuttle with two telephones, a TV set, a sofa, a record player, and a brick wall lining the cabin.

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

The only replicated items in the Cosmosphere are the model of Glamorous Glennis, the Bell X-1 flown by Chuck Yeager, and the life-sized space shuttle replica that greets visitors.

Kent Shocknek

After working at the Long Beach Press Telegram while attending the University of Southern California, Shocknek's first TV reporting job was in Sioux City, Iowa (KCAU-TV), followed by a three-year stint as anchor and Space Shuttle reporter in Orlando, Florida (WFTV).

Konkuk University Station

The station has connections to ten bus lines through its six exits as well as a connection to the airport shuttle bus.

Lalor railway station

Lalor Station opened in October 1949 as Rail Motor Stopping Place 77 and was served by the Thomastown to Whittlesea railmotor shuttle.

Lituya

MV Lituya, shuttle ferry for the Alaska Marine Highway System

London Underground G Stock

The two remaining cars were rebuilt into single cars for use on the South Acton shuttle, replacing a B Stock car.

Loop heat pipe

LHPs were first flight demonstrated on the NASA space shuttle in 1997 with STS-83 and STS-94.

MV Freedom Star

As well as recovering the Space Shuttle SRB's Freedom Star has since 1998 been used to tow the Space Shuttle external fuel tanks from their assembly plant at Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Quartetto Gelato

The quartet's CDs have literally been heard around the world - Canadian astronaut Dr. Robert Thirsk took their first two CDs with him during his NASA flight on board the space shuttle Columbia.

Quest: The History of Spaceflight

Representative articles have featured an unpublished chapter from the James Hansen authorized biography of Neil Armstrong regarding his involvement with the Space Shuttle Challenger accident investigation; the memoirs of Valentina Tereshkova, contributed directly by the first woman in space; Galileo and European interest in positioning and navigation satellites, military use of satellites in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and the U.S. chimpanzee in space efforts.

RAF Feltwell

This data along with that from other systems was used to adjust the orbits of various satellites and manned vessels (for instance the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station) to reduce the risk of on-orbit collisions.

Scania N112

The N112 was also built as an airport shuttle bus with Van Hool Alizee coach body and DAF Variomatic transmission, and in this form Capital Coaches of West Drayton ordered 23 on behalf of the British Airports Authority (BAA) at Heathrow in 1987, while Terminus Securities Ltd took one in 1988 for work at Gatwick.

Scott J. Horowitz

On one of his space shuttle flights as commander, he had the Mars Society's Martian flag hoisted up a mast out of the space shuttle payload bay, and flew the shuttle under the flag of Mars.

Serv

Chrysler SERV, a single-stage to orbit rocket design submitted for the Space Shuttle contest

Shuttle–Mir Program

In an effort to restore some of the power and systems lost following the isolation of Spektr and to attempt to locate the leak, Mir's new commander Anatoly Solovyev and flight engineer Pavel Vinogradov carried out a salvage operation later in the mission.

Skin of Evil

In this episode, the Enterprise races to rescue Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) from a crashed shuttle, which is being held captive by an alien life form called Armus (Mart McChesney, voiced by Ron Gans).

Stagecoach in Newcastle

Stagecoach in Newcastle provides local services around the city as well as operating the 100 MetroCentre shuttle, running from Blackett Street via Central Station to the Metro Centre.

Subway Hero

The scene that takes place at the Rockefeller Center subway station was actually filmed on the 42nd Street Shuttle platform at the Grand Central subway station, with prop signs reading "47–50 Sts – Rockefeller Center" placed over the original signage, and a Shuttle train relabeled as a D train.

Sümerbank Shuttle Railway

The railway was built in 1937 to shuttle workers at the Sümerbank factory to the Nazilli railway station.

Swiss Museum of Transport

The Pallet, nicknamed Elvis, was used during the 8-day STS-46 mission, 31 July - 8 August 1992, when ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier was on board Shuttle Atlantis to deploy ESA's European Retrievable Carrier (Eureca) scientific mission and the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1).

SŽ series 310

InterCitySlovenija links the major cities of Slovenia in one line: Koper (only in summer), Ljubljana, Zidani Most, Celje and Maribor, with frequent service that acts as a high-speed shuttle.

Thiokol

In the mid-1950s the company bought extensive lands in Utah for its rocket test range, and continues to have major operations in the state, at Magna and Promontory (manufacture of the Space Shuttle's solid rocket motors), and its current headquarters at Brigham City.

Thomas Akers

shuttle flight to rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir and the first to exchange U.S. astronauts with Mir, returning Shannon Lucid to earth and leaving John Blaha.

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

Many Tracking and Data Relay Satellites were launched in the 1980s and 1990s with the Space Shuttle and made use of the Inertial Upper Stage, a two-stage solid rocket booster developed for the shuttle.

Umpqua Research Company

On April 12, 2007, URC was inducted into the Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame for its contributions to the microbial check valve (MCV) technology that is used in the water purification system on the Space Shuttle.

USS Enterprise

Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101), the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, used for test flights in earth atmosphere, landing procedures, and ground tests between 1975 and 1985.


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