The oldest American shuttle went to the museum

The astronauts said goodbye to the legendary shuttle Discovery, which today finally left the Kennedy Space Center, making a farewell circle over the spaceport.

Shuttle Discovery "said goodbye" to space, having made the last space voyage in March of last year, reports USA Today. Now it will be the first of three NASA shuttles to be transferred to museums: in the fall, the Endeavor shuttle will take its place at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, after which Atlantis will be put on public display at the Kennedy Space Center.

The staff of the Space Center sent the Discovery shuttle on the last journey, as a person. “It’s not easy to say goodbye to him,” said Michael Mills, an employee of the Space Center, in an interview with MSNBC. “I’ve been watching shuttle launches since 1985, and each one is different.” “My goose bumps run down my back when I see it: it was the same for the first time and the last time,” he added. “The people who work here put their hearts into every launch.”

“Watching his last flight was very strange and painful,” Sandra Saheen supported him. “I am glad that it was the night when he was taken out of the hangar, and no one saw me crying.”

Comments

[Igor]

What is it in the photo, the reproduction of aircraft?

[VAF]

Quote: Igorek

What is it in the photo, the reproduction of aircraft?

A protective casing for engines, or rather for mock copies of engines. the real ones are dismantled and will also be separately exhibited in the museum, plus air transportation implies adherence to the concept of azdynamics for transported goods at such speeds and with such a weight.

In the photo: Shuttles one already with a casing, the second still without it!

[Igor]

I talked about the first photo))))

[VAF]

Quote: Igorek

I talked about the first photo

Well, sorry, I don’t understand!

[Igor]

It happens........

[755962]

Flying on American shuttles is too risky. And costly. Everything to the museum! Upon completion of the Space Shuttle program, the only means of astronaut delivery to the ISS will be Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz.

[VAF]

Quote: 755962

To fly on American shuttles is too risky. And costly. Everything to the museum

This is not the point!

Just compare how they relate to their achievements and how we do!

And immediately everything will become clear!

Well, the rest you are right, +!

In the photo: it used to be like this !!!

[755962]

I agree with you, Sergey is one hundred%. Note how many collections there were on the site about museums in different parts of the world. This is the story according to which future generations will study not only technology, but also you and me. A careful attitude defines love to your past.

[PabloMsk]

755962,

+1 from me.

It is important to leave this legacy for our children so that they know that it is possible not only to build a pragmatic society, but also to see what heights the developed social society, such as the USSR, can reach.

[VAF]

Quote: 755962

according to which future generations will study not only technology, but also you and me

No words, only +!

[Region-25.rus]

Our history will be studied in the villas of the oligarchs and the "castles" of Pugacheva-Galkin and in Kirkorov's wardrobe (((

[vostok]

Where is our Buran? Why is he not in the museum? Or we do not know how to value the achievements of our scientists.

[PabloMsk]

Quote: vostok

Where is our Buran? Why is he not in the museum? Or we do not know how to value the achievements of our scientists.

The full-size mock-up of the spacecraft is in RSC Energia and no one is going to destroy it.
And another ship stands in the Gorky Park on the banks of the Moscow River.

[VAF]

Quote: PabloMsk

And another ship stands in the Gorky Park on the banks of the Moscow River.

Yes there is such a thing, just not a ship, but a layout!

As they say "... feel the difference"!

"It's so busy on the shore,
And the water rises like a mirage
The old ship is a menacing ship
The onlookers amuse and decorates the beach.

No matter how you fight, years, alas, are stronger,
Like it or not, its time will take:
They rotted the sides, and there are no sails on the yards.
And never give full ahead.

But anyone here will go for a piglet,
To push a goby into a cannon
And visit the cafe in the hold
and the wine room
And also star in the background of the sea wave
With a friend, if there is no wife,
With one hand hugging her
Another hugging the helm.

Being there, I and the crowd staring,
With pain in my soul I realized one thing -
In order not to become such a museum -
It's better to go to the bottom at the right moment ... "

Andrei Makarevich

In my opinion it is better not to say !!!

[VAF]

Quote: PabloMsk

Full-size mock-up of the spacecraft is at RSC Energia

It’s worth it, but the question was asked about the museum, and CIS is not a museum!

Quote: PabloMsk

nobody is going to destroy him.

But there are rumors on this topic. he takes up a lot of space and ...! So let's see!
But "ours" can do anything, you know what to list ???

[VAF]

Quote: vostok

Where is our Buran?

I answer:

By the time the program was closed (early 1990s) five flight specimens of the Buran ship were built or were under construction:
product 1.01 "Buran" - the ship made a space flight in automatic mode. Was in the collapsed assembly and test building on the 112th site of the cosmodrome On the map: Product 1.01 "Buran", completely destroyed on May 12, 2002. It was the property of Kazakhstan.
product 1.02 "Buran-2" or, unofficially "Bird" - was supposed to make the second flight in automatic mode with docking with the manned station "Mir". It is also located at the Baikonur cosmodrome and is also the property of Kazakhstan. In April 2007, this copy was installed in the exposition of the Baikonur cosmodrome museum (site 2) On the map: Item 1.02 "Buran-2" ("Bird").
product 2.01 - the degree of readiness of the ship at the time of termination of work was 30-50%. Until 2004, he was in the shops of the Tushino Engineering Plant, in October 2004 he was transported to the pier of the Khimki Reservoir for temporary storage. On the map: Item 2.01.
product 2.02 - was ready for 10-15%. Dismantled on the slipways of the Tushino Engineering Plant.
product 2.03 - stock was destroyed in the shops of the Tushino Engineering Plant.

In addition, several models of the ship were built, designed to conduct various tests with them, one of which stands on the promenade in TsPKiO, like a tavern !!!

But there is already a decision that it is time to remove this one too. it takes up a lot of space, and the "comers" have nowhere to put the next stalls and kiosks with "pivasik and seeds"!

In the photo: product 2.01 - still at the Tushino plant, and now it stands on the bank of the Khimken reservoir, in "storage" !!!

[VAF]

Quote: vostok

Or we do not know how to value the achievements of our scientists.

Unfortunately, yes, and not only scientists !!!

You know what it is, and what could happen? And how many years earlier than the Amer Shuttles?

[saturn.mmm]

I recommend watching this video
http://rutube.ru/tracks/1518357.html
And I also want to remember the great Russian, Soviet designer, honor and glory to Naum Semenovich Chernyshev.

[saturn.mmm]

I apologize for the inaccuracy, I want to correct a mistake
Great Soviet aircraft designer Naum Semenovich Chernyakov.

[VAF]

quote = vostok] Why is he not in the museum? [/ quote]

Continuation of the answer to your question:

Item 2.01 (Buran 2.01) for seven long years dejectedly stood in the closed territory of the pier on Lodochnaya Street in Moscow.
The name "Baikal" and the honorable mission to become the first manned space shuttle of the Soviet Buran program were intended for him.
So everything was conceived ...
In fact, in 1993, the program of the domestic shuttle was safely curtailed, and the unfinished Baikal was first located on the territory of the Molniya NGO, and from there, in 2004, it was taken to the shore of the Khimki reservoir. (Photo posted in the first parts of the answer).

On June 22, 2011, the 2.01 product went to its last stop in Zhukovsky, where it was brought to the MAKS-2011 air show in a "divine form" (although, according to my impression and contemplation, so tyap-blunder) from 100-150 meters , but you will come closer, in short, it's better not to remember, and so "Baikal" remained on the site of the "museum" right at the airfield.

In the photo: the stage of the way to the place, which may already be the "last" stop, along the Moskva River to Ramenskoye (Zhukovsky), in short, at the Gromov Flight Research Institute.

[Pedro]

I remember when I was studying in the 70s, the Shuttle was a real chip. Then everyone, or almost everyone believed that this was the future. However, time has shown that this is not so.

[Num lock U.A.]

maybe they (Shuttles and Buran) just got ahead of their time, it seems to me that in the future the controlled devices will return

[VAF]

Quote: Num Lock UA

maybe they (Shuttles and Buran) are simply ahead of their time

No, everything is on time, but here, as always, we have nothing to do with us!

Quote: Num Lock UA

it seems to me that in the future managed devices will return

Absolutely correct thought +!

Look at the photo, I hope you understand everything and see for yourself!
This is a snapshot in the KIS at RSC Energia

[Num lock U.A.]

per photo plus

[PabloMsk]

Thanks to the author for the article!

Our media, as always, patriotically kept silent about this event ...
And thanks to all the people who put their hearts into these projects both in the States and in Russia! These are real ascetics of astronautics and human civilization as a whole!

Ahead are new challenges and they will be solved differently.

[Opertak]

We have shots taken by CBS ... one of the CBS subsidiaries here in Washington. Reporters talked to a former astronaut flying on the Discovery shuttle. Here is her advice to representatives of the young generation who dream of becoming astronauts.
CORRESPONDENT: What advice would you give to Ethan, who wants to become an astronaut?
ANNA FISHER, astronaut: Learn Russian

Here is all that remains of the American space program:

[VAF]

Quote: OperTak

Here is all that remains of the American space program:

Well, why so?

People work, do Orion, Ares, while on our Unions will be!

[Opertak]

Quote: veteran.air force

People work, do Orion, Ares,

Both Orion and Ares are closed. The only thing they can still afford now is to try to tie our rocket engines to their stupid iron, which have already bought 150 from Russia. America is a third world country and will not get out of this state, and our engines only postpone the recognition of this for some time. I think so.

[VAF]

Quote: OperTak

I think so.

You have every right, +!

Quote: OperTak

who bought from Russia as many as 150 pieces.

And not only, but also rockets and their production!

Quote: OperTak

it try to stupid iron

But I think this, you're in vain, after all, NASA is not LLC "Horns and Hooves", but the same serious office!

So let's see, see ?!

Not a minus!

[Opertak]

No problem, let's see :)) Only I think that your ideas about NASA are 15-20 years old, this is RiK, like DARPA, which is likely to be killed on the spot in the near future, as having failed to cope with the tasks ...
PS And I’m not offended by the minuses - you never know idiots and ignoramuses running around the Internet :))

[Stasi.]

The space age began with rocket astronautics, a logical continuation is manned astronautics, guided spacecraft that themselves can launch into space without the help of rockets. The future lies with manned space and space pilots. Now the main thing is not to relax and develop our cosmonautics and space science in this direction. We must strive to fulfill the precepts of the scientist-designer Lozino-Lozinsky, manned astronautics is his brainchild.

[Chicot 1]

Well, say goodbye to the veteran. For the good and without politics and stereotypes. After all, he embodied an entire era ...

Good parking to you, "Discovery"!

And once again, it remains only for charcoal-black to envy the Americans in how they are careful and sensitive to their technology ... After all, they have bombers of the Second World War still on the move. And not one or two ... They are proud, really proud of their achievements and keep them ... Not that offensive ... Sadly ...