Posts Tagged landings
White Ship, White Sands
Saw this image on Twitter yesterday: STS-3 Columbia landing at White Sands, New Mexico. Very cool picture! Not sure where the original image came from, but I’m sure it’s buried in the NASA media archives somewhere….
The End
Posted by Danielle in News & Happenings, Picspam on July 21, 2011
Well… this is it. Get your fill of landing (and launch!) photos here. The landing was beautiful… and sad, very sad. The thing with perhaps the most sustained influence on my life, is over today.
Goodbye, Space Shuttle, and thank you.
Final Landing
Posted by Danielle in News & Happenings, Picspam on March 9, 2011
Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
I choked up as I watched space shuttle Discovery land this morning, and wept as I heard Commander Lindsey say, “Houston, Discovery. For the final time, wheelstop.” Discovery had 27 years of service, 39 flights, traveling 148,221,675 miles. She made 5,830 orbits of Earth, with a total of 365 days in space. She took us back into space after the loss of Challenger and Columbia, and served us faithfully.
Godspeed, Discovery.
Welcome Home
Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
As sad as I am to see the end of @Astro_Soichi‘s wonderful orbital photography, welcome home to the crew of ISS Expedition 23! (Presented for your approval, a terrific photo by Bill Ingalls.)
The Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews.
A Beautiful Bird
Photo credit: NASA/Tony Gray and Tom Farrar
I admit, I download every launch and landing photo from KSC Media Archive, every shuttle mission. I have for some time. It’s gotten to the point where I can tell if they’re not done uploading the pictures to the gallery yet, because this or that angle is missing. Yes, I’m admitting just how nerdy I am, shut up with the laughing already. I’m not about to tell you “it all looks the same”, but there are recognizable angles, camera locations, etc. When a NEW view appears, like the landing photo above, I’m thrilled to bits!
Sadly, this may very well be Atlantis’ last mission. All good things come to an end… still, I root for her, that she might have one last hurrah with the spare ET/SRBs we’ll have left over. Time will tell!
Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
Discovery Lands
Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now
My favorite picks from yesterday’s landing photos, courtesy of the KSC Media Archive, Spaceflight Now and Flying Jenny.
Photo Credit: Jen Scheer (@flyingjenny)
^ Jen said this was her favorite photo. I can see why!
Photo credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now
^ This reminds me of flying into SFO… except not as deep water, lol.
Photo Credit: Jen Scheer (@flyingjenny)
^ This is MY favorite of Jen’s landing photos. Something about the colors….
Photo Credit: NASA/Rusty Backer
^ I’d have a hard time picking a favorite from the NASA photos because there’s so many. (I’m always a tiny bit sad when the landing gets switched to Edwards AFB, as they don’t take nearly as many/good pictures and as we all know, I am a picture hoarder.)
California Landing
Shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Friday, ending a successful mission to the International Space Station. (Edwards doesn’t take as many landing photos as KSC does, so here’s what I’ve got.)
Landing Spam
Posted by Danielle in News & Happenings, Picspam on July 31, 2009
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