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1. Model of 1981 space shuttle enterprise wooden base install#
2. Model of 1981 space shuttle enterprise wooden base verification#

We were allowed to get off and take photos. The bus stopped near the Crawler-Transporter parking location along the Crawlerway, midway between the VAB and Pad A. Everyone, of course, was there for the same reason. Once on -board our bus, the excitement was tangible. Our group ended up at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex on Thursday, April 9, 1981, and we pushed to get one of the last KSC Tours running that day in hopes of seeing Columbia on the pad. My hope was to have pictures from our launch trip to work with. The roll out was covered by all the major news magazines, and I finally had some better visual data to re-make the model with, but not enough to make it worthwhile to start now.

In December of 1980, STS-1 rolled-out to the launch pad to begin preparations for an on-pad Flight Readiness Firing of its three Shuttle Main Engines, and then final preparation for powered flight. All I knew is that that basic model looked pretty good.Īlong the way, our club back then, the Illinois Valley Aerospace Club, decided it was going to raise money and take its members to the first Space Shuttle launch, which was supposed to be in 1979, but that became 1980, which became 1981.

Model of 1981 space shuttle enterprise wooden base verification#

Space & Rocket Center in Alabama.Įnterprise had not yet gone to KSC to conduct the Facility Verification Test, which would not occur until mid-1979, so the "actual" look of the Shuttle support structures was not available yet. I was driven by pictures taken on our recent vacation trip of the Shuttle launch pad construction at LC 39A in Florida, along withe pictures of a pad display model seen at the U.S.

Model of 1981 space shuttle enterprise wooden base install#

★In the cargo room at the center of the fuselage, you can select and install a removable space lab (space laboratory) and a multipurpose replenishment module (Raphael).This is a model which began back in 1977, as an attempt to create a basic "model rocketry" oriented display stand for my 1/162 Estes flying Space Shuttle model. ★The docking system and manipulator with the International Space Station have also been made into parts. Includes 2 astronauts and a stand for display Set of six types of space shuttle aircraft marks including the prototype enterprise Reflectors on the back side of the hatch are reproduced with plated parts The cargo hatch can be opened and closed. The interior of the flight deck, the main engine, and the landing gear are also precision finished It can be assembled by choosing the last flight of July 2011 and the first flight of the space shuttle And, we finished the last mission successfully, and it took off for space space development era of space shuttle for more than 30 years. Unfortunately Columbia and the Challenger were lost in the accident, but Atlantis sent the Venus probe Magellan in May, 1989, in October the same year sent out the Jupiter probe Galileo, in 2000 I made an assembly and replenishment mission of the International Space Station. In 1981, a total of 135 launches were carried out from the successful launch of Unit 1 Colombia for the first launch to the retirement in 2011, including various experiments in the installed space lab (space laboratory), multipurpose replenishment He contributed to space development by performing various missions such as construction of the International Space Station (ISS) using modules, emission of space telescope and satellites, etc.

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