Yesterday, the shuttle "Discovery", the oldest of the three remaining space shuttles, the last time up in the air. At this time, not himself, but on the back of a specially equipped aircraft "Boeing 747". "Discovery" was taken back to where it will display exhibits - a branch of the National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institute in Virginia. For the carriage was used by conventional transport system delivery shuttles to the launch site - Boeing 747-100SR (747SUD) with an extended upper deck. It is interesting that today the "Discovery" transporting the same, "Boeing", which was used for the delivery of the shuttle on the launch site in Florida for its first flight into space August 30, 1984.
"Discovery" - the most honored of all spacecraft program Space Shuttle. For 27 years he has visited 39 times in space, flew more than 235 million miles, did 5830 revolutions around the Earth in space and spent a total of 365 days. It was he who brought into the orbit space telescope "Hubble" at the first time in the program Space Shuttle flew in space, Russian cosmonaut - in 1994, Sergei Krikalev took part in the STS-60 and that the "Discovery" again returned Americans to space after the death of "Challenger" and "Columbia." "Discovery" space shuttle made the first docking with the Russian space station "Mir" and it flew into space again, the 77-year-old John Glenn - the first American astronaut who has made an orbital space flight in 1962, his last space flight "Discovery" completed 9 March 2011 and carry it to the final journey to the launch site came the crew of the last expedition STS-133.
Installation of the shuttle for special mounting in the fuselage, "Boeing". Engines "Discovery" closed fairing. In the past, the shuttle made a humorous sticker montirovschikom that set the spacecraft on its back, "Boeing»: Black Side Down (Black side down) - so they are not confused as to put the shuttle on the "Boeing": black thermal protection down. In the Soviet Union for the transportation of "Buran" was used AN-225 "Mriya". Source
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6. Today, "747" at low altitude symbolically drove "Discovery" around Washington, flying past the Capitol and the White House.
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11. The exposition of the National Museum of Cosmonautics "Discovery" will replace the ever flown in space, "Enterprise," which will travel to New York in the Space Museum, naval and air forces of the U.S. aircraft carrier «Intrepid».
bace baik baik la ayat aku..
kan aku cakap bila kat udara, enjin mati pun bleh terbang..
bukan aku cakap takde enjin pun bleh terbang..
tapi glide la bukan terbang sangat..
thrust tu dari 4 batang enjin tu la...
Post time 19-4-2012 04:11 PM
变色卡
atau loght utara sebut...kokkong
