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What a visonary you were. The only newspaper clippings I ever collected were Bloom County's

Well when the space race was on during the 60's & 70's it was a differnt place at that time compared to what it is today. Now you only hear about the space program that are putting up Satelites into space or sending robots off to places to discover other life on other local planets in our solar systems. It has started to become common that ou hear when you have astronauts going into space to do certain tests experiments as well at times.

DaveTRON Wrote:I have always been a fan of the space program, but in the past 20 years it's tapered off a lot. This is reminding me of how cool it is and what heroes these people really are. One of the pieces I still have is my copy of Time from the Challenger disaster. I cried for days over that.

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DaveTRON Wrote:Yeah, it's too bad these are not things that are looked up to anymore. It's so commonplace that people forget the effort that goes into it. Look at the difference between the last shuttle disaster and the first one. I think the impact on the American psyche was so much larger the first time around. It's sad that it was just a few days of news and then forgotten.

There's too much pointless destruction going on in the world today that it, unfortunately, is also common place. And this is just the tip of the iceberg without going in to political views (which I don't think anyone wants me to bring up. Politics = more fighting )

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As a little kid, I was an avid follower of the Space Shuttle program (and all things related to aviation and spaceflight) since before they even started the ALT's. I probably have my clippings of the first shuttle launches in storage somewhere.

My visit to the Kennedy Space Center & Cape Canavaral was very awe-inspiring. I got to walk across the same gantry walkway that the Apollo astronauts walked across to get to their capsule. I saw a Saturn V up close and man is that thing HUGE! I saw the Vehicle Assembly Building which is just massive. I walked throught the rocket garden. I touched a moon rock. I even got a glimpse of a couple of shuttles in the Obiter Processing Facility.

I'm really excited by the new direction of the space program. Establishing a permant presence on the moon is something we should've done back in the 1970's, but better late than never. And using a permanent base as a stepping stone for a manned mission to Mars is just an awesome prospect.

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Corruption Wrote:I am very interested in the space program. I'm not sure if this is of intererest to anyone but myself, but my name is on the Stardust spacecraft. http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/overview/microchip/faq.html (Edit again) I just found this page Where is Stardust right now?

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How can I contact a person whose name is on one of the microchips? Contact information is not available for any persons listed on the microchips through the STARDUST office. We did not collect any email addresses or other contact information for the individuals listed on the chips.

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DaveTRON Wrote:...I have a clipping of the first shuttle launch, russian launches too!

Man I feel OLD!

It seems like just yesterday when they herded all us fifth graders in to the media center at school to watch the historic FIRST blast-off of the Space Shuttle Columbia! Hard to believe that was... 25 years ago? Wow. I also remember the Space Shuttle Enterprise! But that one never got made it out there, did it? I just remember seeing it mounted on top of a modified airplane and reading about it coasting back down to earth after being launched from an airplane (not reaching space)... or is that a false memory? I thought it was cool that they named it "Enterprise" after Star Trek's NCC-1701 Enterprise.

How many people clearly remember the WHITE center fuel component of the early shuttle launches? I remember how odd it looked to me the first time they didn't paint it white and just left it rust-colored.

I've always been very fascinated with the space program, but in recent years I've been very disappointed with the lack of much going on. We visited the moon for the last time in the early 70's... and haven't been back since. The space shuttle fleet is old, inefficient, and expensive to maintain - where are the newer, more advanced ships? We've landed some robotic surveyors on Mars - that's promising... but I bet the whole Mars thing goes nowhere quick too.

I think space exploration could offer so much, mainly in terms of just exploring what's out there and advancing interplanetary travel. It's so very fascinating to me. But it just seems like so little is going on these days. Budget cuts, politics, and (what I see as) a lack of effort to better the technology. It's a damn shame. We'll be nowhere close to traveling to distant stars in our lifetime. We'll be lucky to land humans on Mars in our lifetime.

Ok, disappointed in the lack of progress, but I'm still very fascinated with space exploration!

OK, here we go:

Enterprise, completed in September of 1976, was actually supposed to be named Constitution, but a bunch of Star Trek fans wrote in and got it named Enterprise.

Enterprise was used in the ALTs, or Approach and Landing Tests, in which the orbiter was mated to the SCA, or Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, a specially modified 747, flown high up above Edwards AFB and released. The two shuttle pilots aboard then flew it in for a landing. You may have seen pictures of the Enterprise gliding high in the air with an aerodynamic tail cone covering the main engines of the orbiter, and an instrument boom on the nose. After it was decided that it would be too difficult to convert Enterprise from its ALT configuration into a space-rated Orbiter (it was easier to convert the structural-test vehicle Challenger into a space-rated Orbiter,) it was turned over to the Smithsonian.

BTW, there were initially two vehicles intended to be space-rated Orbiters, Enterprise and Columbia, and two test articles, Challenger and Pathfinder. Pathfinder is a 75-ton orbiter simulator used for testing Orbiter handling procedures, and sometimes for standing in for Enterprise in some tests. It has since been converted to look like an actual orbiter and is on display in Alabama. Also, there is a Space Shuttle replica, Explorer, on display at Kennedy.

As for the white paint on the External Tank, not painting it white saves about 1,000 lbs, which means 1,000 lbs more cargo that can be carried into orbit.