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Space Shuttle Umbilicals

Umbilicals in the Tail Service Mast for the Space Shuttle. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Crawler power

We can’t get enough of NASA’s two Crawlers and how they have been working since the 1960’s! #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Ejection Seats on the Space Shuttle

Here is a diagram for the Ejection Seat configuration on the Space Shuttle. #ejectionseat #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Landing the Space Shuttle

Here is the view of Edwards AFB from Orbiter Challenger OV-99 in 1983, returning from STS-6. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

External Tank construction

Here is a liquid hydrogen tank and liquid oxygen tank for the Space Shuttle external tank (ET) being assembled in the weld assembly area of the Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) in 1977. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Silts pod

Orbiter Columbia OV-102 featured a distinctive pod on top of its vertical tail stabilizer, housing the Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing (SILTS) experiment. Installed after mission STS-9, this infrared camera system observed thermal heating on the fuselage and left wing during reentry, the camera system was removed after the 1991 mission STS-61C. #silts #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari

Enterprise flying…. Sort of

Here is Orbiter Enterprise OV-101 being held aloft by a yellow sling and a set of cranes after it was removed from the top of NASA's 747SCA at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in 2012. #spaceshuttle #nasa #boneyardsafari #aviationsafari