check out these cool shuttle photos
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/297522main_image_1244_946-710.jpg)
(http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/296242main_ED08-0306-113_full.jpg)
found at http://gizmodo.com/5112331/stunning-zenithal-shot-of-space-shuttle-flying-on-top-of-747 (http://gizmodo.com/5112331/stunning-zenithal-shot-of-space-shuttle-flying-on-top-of-747)
~Java
and a super hi-res of the Columbia piggybacked
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/imageviewer.cfm?mediaid=7304&mr=l&w=0&h=0&fn=01padig106&sn=KSC-01PADIG-106 (http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/imageviewer.cfm?mediaid=7304&mr=l&w=0&h=0&fn=01padig106&sn=KSC-01PADIG-106)
That is always amazing looking... great pics.
No matter how many times I see that I am amazed that such a contraption can actually fly.
They flew one of the early ones over London like that once when we were kids. I think it might even have been Enterprise.
The family all went into town as far as the Thames to be sure to see it fly over. I can't remember if we have any pictures but I still remember the sight.
Cool pictures! For some reason the opening sequence of Moonraker came to mind.
Yep, the only way to get her back to the Cape when they land at Edwards.
Quote from: Bryancd on December 18, 2008, 09:17:09 AM
Yep, the only way to get her back to the Cape when they land at Edwards.
I have my glider pilots license. I always thought that it's be interesting if they did the transport with a tow plane and line. You'd have someone in the shuttle piloting it, take off behind the tow plane, do a cross-country tow and then release the shuttle at the Cape and have it land on it's own there.
Kinda like the image below but BIGGER! :)
Physics is truly amazing sometimes!