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Topic: Half-scale space shuttle orbiter
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Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 08-02-2007 04:48 PM
   
I've been waiting to share the news about this until contracts were signed. Today paperwork was signed and shortly I will be talking possession of a fantastic shuttle experience. More to come later, but here are a few photos. This will be a great addition to the Kansas city area.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42982
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-02-2007 06:14 PM
Very nice, Vince! I think the lower left picture in DC is from its Space Day appearance several years ago, and if so, I toured it then, between breaks from our 8-hour Cyber SpaceDay webcast... |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-02-2007 06:35 PM
Is this the one that was on eBay a few months ago? |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 08-02-2007 06:48 PM
Robert, thanks. It's funny that you've been in it and I haven't (yet). Terry, yes it was listed on eBay about 6 weeks ago. |
space1
Member Posts: 853
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 08-02-2007 08:41 PM
Congratulations, Vince. It is indeed a fine exhibit. It seems I crossed paths with Robert when this was in DC, as I also toured the exhibit that day. |
Jake
Member Posts: 464
From: Issaquah, WA U.S.A.
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 08-08-2007 06:54 PM
Very cool.....! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42982
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-29-2007 02:17 PM
The Kansas City Star reports about the shuttle replica. The craft was recently acquired by space enthusiast Vince Lawrence, a securities investor and adviser who last year moved from California to Lee's Summit. A business associate asked him to give the shuttle its debut at the Fall Festival, the perfect venue for Lawrence, whose goal is to find captivating ways to teach about space travel and to help people grow spiritually. |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 09-29-2007 07:53 PM
Robert, I got to hand it to you, nothing gets by your observation. It's been an exhausting weekend. We had a few incidents including a tire blow out, a malfunction with the amx system, a computer that died and filled the shuttle with a wonderful burnt smell, and a miscalculation in the size of the space where the shuttle will be stored. It's an indoor location in which we barely got it in and not sure how we're going to get it out. I think I'll take a vote and see how many would like to send it to space, how many would like to put an asterisk on it, or how many would like to put a collectSPACE logo on it.  Not crazy about the interview as the sun was blaring in my face and the interviewer just put a microphone on me an said talk. It's easy to answer questions about the topic, but another thing to ramble on for a few minutes without being asked specific questions. Thank goodness it was edited. Oh well, I guess the important thing is that the word got out. |
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posted 10-02-2007 10:27 PM
Like to communicate with Vince Lawrence (Moonpaws) about availability of shuttle for Young Eagles display next Aug 08. |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 10-03-2007 03:03 PM
Awesome Vince - It reminds me of the one we have here for Downey that we will soon see a building built for! Can you tell us some more about this one's origins? Does it have an interior? That sort of thing... |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 10-03-2007 06:21 PM
Jim, it was designed by the Renaissance Center in Dickson Tennessee about 10 years ago. It has 18 seats, over 50 video monitors, headsets, buttons, alarms, etc. It was built at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson Kansas. My future plans: We are going to renovate the shuttle interior and install a cockpit, flat screens, and a bunch of neat stuff. The computers will be swapped out and the new mission will be called, dream mission; a journey to the Moon and Mars. It will be more sophisticated than its present state. If anyone can recommend a good software platform for simulation, I would appreciate it. |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 01-19-2008 05:08 PM
I'm not much of a web designer, but here's my new website. |
Jake
Member Posts: 464
From: Issaquah, WA U.S.A.
Registered: Jun 2002
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posted 01-21-2008 01:11 PM
Nice work on your website... |
Retro Rocket
Member Posts: 445
From: Santa Paula, Ca,. USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 01-22-2008 10:56 AM
I was in Kansas interviewing with Max when they rolled that out, very cool. Although I did point out they had the flag on the wrong side of UNITED STATES on the port side of the shuttle. He laughed and told me that when they were painting their big 1/2 shuttle inside the Cosmosphere, it read the "UNTIED STATES". |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 01-22-2008 08:24 PM
Jon, sounds like a good name for a band. |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 05-21-2008 10:03 PM
This weekend I'm bringing my 1/2 scale replica shuttle to a huge local barbecue. There will be over 40,000 people in attendance. |
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