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Endeavour meets Discovery
« on: August 14, 2011, 02:45:40 PM »
I saw this on NASA TV today and thought people here might like to see a picture. Discovery and Endeavour passing each other during a location switch, stopped for the photo op on Aug 11th. There should be video kicking around the NASA site somewhere, I saw it on the live stream, but tape delayed.


Poor old ships are looking rough... as you would expect but still pulls at the heartstrings.

Source: http://www.space.com/12614-nasa-2-space-shuttles-nose-photo-retirement.html


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Re: Endeavour meets Discovery
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2011, 04:57:05 PM »
Sad... The two Shuttles are really ugly like that... No oms pod or rcs... Sad...
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Re: Endeavour meets Discovery
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2011, 05:59:02 PM »
Sad... The two Shuttles are really ugly like that... No oms pod or rcs... Sad...

But their soul is still there...

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Re: Endeavour meets Discovery
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2011, 03:17:55 AM »
I think they will get the OMS and RCS back for display. And certainly SSME dummies (or maybe even original ones after cleaning) :)

Here is another very nice photo:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/180842main_nosetonose.jpg
« Last Edit: August 15, 2011, 03:21:07 AM by Moonwalker »